2009/10/9 Joe Williams <[email protected]>: > > Has is been considered doing this with the backend servers rather than > the client? Basically to re-validate objects in the cache? A request > hits varnish, varnish requests the backend with an if-none-match header > and the backend replies with either a 200 or 304. This way the client > does not need to know anything of etags, the cache is always up to > date for commonly requested objects and the backend won't need to > produce the content if the object in the cache is the most recent.
Take a look at: http://varnish.projects.linpro.no/changeset/4294 The change was made to the "client <-> varnish" communication, not "varnish <-> backend". This later communication is, AFAIK, always done without conditionals. Regards, -- Rogério Schneider MSN: [email protected] GTalk: [email protected] Skype: stockrt http://stockrt.github.com _______________________________________________ varnish-misc mailing list [email protected] http://projects.linpro.no/mailman/listinfo/varnish-misc
