Serve old content if backed is slow.

Anton Stonor stonorn at giraffen.dk
Wed Dec 13 11:23:42 CET 2006


Klaus wrote:

> I fact, the ideal way would be if content has expired, it would still 
> serve the old content until new content is retrieved from backend.

I believe "pre fetching" is on the drawing board and hopefully scheduled 
  for version 2.

It will probably make it possible to set up rules such as: Fetch a fresh 
copy from the backend 30 seconds before the object times out.

/Anton



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