Varnish version 2 and beyond

[Damien Wetzel]

Hello,
Regarding varnish 2 or later, have you had requests to support SSL ?
Damien,

Sten Spans writes:
 > On Tue, 31 Oct 2006, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
 > 
 > >
 > >
 > > Varnish version 1 has been out for some time now, and it is time
 > > to talk about varnish version 2 and the future in general.
 > >
 > > I told Anders that I wanted a bit of vacation before I even
 > > contemplated the future.  That is why I have been relatively silent
 > > and inactive since the release.
 > >
 > > But I have also talked to a number of early Varnish users and given
 > > a couple of talks about Varnish in various settings and the reception
 > > have been very warm and postive.
 > >
 > > And then everybody asks me "What happens next ?  What about version 2 ?"
 > >
 > > So lets me open the discussion about version 2 with a loooong email:
 > >
 > >
 > > What ?
 > > ======
 > >
 > > The features I have heard people ask for so far are:
 > >
 > >    Things we already know how to do:
 > > 	Bugfixes
 > > 	Docs
 > > 	More VCL
 > > 	Simple Server side includes.
 > > 	Vary: header processing (requirement for compression etc.)
 > > 	Compression.
 > > 	tar storage method for static/emergency contents
 > > 	The cluster controller
 > 
 > I just now started looking at varnish, after watching your eurobsdcon
 > presentation. I'm looking into varnish as a frontend for remote and local
 > freebsd/linux mirrors. A small 1gb package cache reachable via l2 speeds 
 > things up quite a bit.
 > 
 > The main thing that seems to be missing (for my purposes) is more control 
 > over the request sent to the backends, Host: and url rewriting in vcl 
 > would be nice. If some more flexibility is added then people who currently 
 > use apache+mod_rewrite should feel right at home.
 > 
 > A trivial switch to use the backend hostname instead of the client 
 > supplied hostname would cover most cases though.
 > 
 > 
 > Thanks for the great software.
 > 
 > -- 
 > Sten Spans
 > 
 > "There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in."
 > Leonard Cohen - Anthem
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