On a different but related note: What would be best to use for long-polling connections?
-- Henrik On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Per Buer <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 9:31 PM, Rob S <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > For most sites, we use Varnish to do both caching and load balancing. > > However, for one or two, where it's not currently practical to cache, we > > use it solely for load balancing etc. What's the best way of using > Varnish > > so that the backends aren't kept holding the connections whilst the > client > > is patiently downloading? > > If you're sure you don't want _any_ caching (not even 1s); pass. > > However, if you're clients are downloading ISO images, the whole image > must be fetched from the backend and stored before it is given to the > client. In such conditions it makes sense to use pipe. > > > -- > Per Buer, Varnish Software > Phone: +47 21 54 41 21 / Mobile: +47 958 39 117 / skype: per.buer > > _______________________________________________ > varnish-misc mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.varnish-cache.org/mailman/listinfo/varnish-misc >
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