Varnish use for purely binary files

[Michael S. Fischer]

On Jan 18, 2010, at 3:47 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> In message <D95E1BEC-1B8D-4DE1-8A91-7C1C92AC1985 at dynamine.net>, "Michael S. Fis
> cher" writes:
> 
>> That's why you don't use those webservers as origin servers for
>> that purpose.  But you don't use Varnish for it either.  It's not
>> an origin server anyway.
> 
> Actually, for protocol purposes, Varnish is an origin server.
> 
> If you read RFC2616 very carefully, you can find the one place where
> they failed to evict server-side caches from the text, when they
> realized that a cache under the control of the webmaster, is
> indistinguisable from a webserver, for protocol purposes.


I meant it for practical purposes, Poul-Henning.  But I'm sure you knew that. :)

--Michael