[varnish] Re: [varnish] Re: [varnish] renaming varnish concepts...

[Ricardo Newbery]

On Jan 28, 2009, at 3:31 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> In message <79A2CE8A- 
> A135-4542-9C8C-1F4327FED5F2 at digitalmarbles.com>, Ricardo N
> ewbery writes:
>
>> Sorry, I'm still unclear...
>>
>> Right now, doesn't purge_url also "ban" all Varys?
>
> Yes, but they won't be dealt with until they take a catch-hit.  The
> idea is to deal with them all once we find the first one.
>
>> If so, then why would it matter whether a PURGE request resulted in a
>> real "purge" or a "ban"?
>
> It would get things out of the system faster.
>
> This may not make a big difference to most sites, but very interactive
> sites can have a LOT of purges going on.


Cool... so why do you figure that backwards compatibility is not  
possible?  If my old purge scripts now start "purging" rather than  
"banning", why should anything break?

Ric