Using Varnish to accelerate CouchDB

[Per Buer]

On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Karel Minařík <karel.minarik at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I am sorry to ask the same dumb questions over and over, but does it mean,
> that Varnish does not work in ETags, ie. does not support "Validation" type
> of caching as opposed to "Expiration" caching in the sense of Ryan Tomayko's
> article [http://tomayko.com/writings/things-caches-do] ?

Varnish only supports ETags "in front" that is, only when a client
sends us an ETag will we respons correctly. Towards the backend Etags
are not supported although I think there are patches floating around
that might address that. If I recall correctly Slink and some
Rackspace people where eager to see ETags in Varnish.


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