best way to not cache large files?

[Ken Brownfield]

I'm assuming that in this case it's not possible for you to have the backend
server emit an appropriate Cache-Control or Expires header based on the size
of the file?  The server itself will know the file size before transmission,
and the reindeer caching games would not be necessary. ;-)

That's definitely the Right Way, but it would require control over the
backend, which is often not possible.  Apache unfortunately doesn't have a
built-in mechanism/module to emit a header based on file size, at least that
I can find. :-(
-- 
kb



On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 00:42, Chris Hecker <checker at d6.com> wrote:

>
> Yeah, I think if I can't do it Right (which I define as checking the file
> size in the vcl), then I'm just going to make blah.com/uncached/* be
> uncached.  I don't want to transfer it once just to throw it away.
>
> Chris
>
>
>
> On 2011/03/15 00:40, Martin Boer wrote:
>
>> I've been reading this discussion and imho the most elegant way to do it
>> is to have a upload directory X and 2 download directories Y and Z with
>> a script in between that decides whether it's cacheable and move the
>> file to Y or uncacheable and put it in Z.
>> All the other solutions mentioned in between are far more intelligent
>> and much more likely to backfire in some way or another.
>>
>> Just my 2 cents.
>> Martin
>>
>>
>> On 03/13/2011 05:28 AM, Chris Hecker wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I have a 400mb file that I just want apache to serve. What's the best
>>> way to do this? I can put it in a directory and tell varnish not to
>>> cache stuff that matches that dir, but I'd rather just make a general
>>> rule that varnish should ignore >=20mb files or whatever.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Chris
>>>
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