Cache parts of pages?

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20071024143634.GG14097 at emptyhost.emptydomain.de>, Kai Grossjohann w
rites:
>Our web site has a navigation bar on every page with a picture of the
>day in it.  Let's say that most pages never change after being created,
>except for the navigation bar.
>
>Is it possible to use Varnish in such a way that the "meat" of every
>page is cached separately from the navbar, and on every request the
>navbar is merged into the "meat" of the page just prior to delivery?

I'm working on it right now, it's called "ESI includes" and allow
you to do exactly that kind of thing.

See:
	http://www.w3.org/TR/esi-lang

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