In message <d95e1bec-1b8d-4de1-8a91-7c1c92ac1...@dynamine.net>, "Michael S. Fis
cher" writes:

>That's why you don't use those webservers as origin servers for
>that purpose.  But you don't use Varnish for it either.  It's not
>an origin server anyway.

Actually, for protocol purposes, Varnish is an origin server.

If you read RFC2616 very carefully, you can find the one place where
they failed to evict server-side caches from the text, when they
realized that a cache under the control of the webmaster, is
indistinguisable from a webserver, for protocol purposes.

Poul-Henning

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