Should I Use Varnish for RESTful API

[Per Buer]

Hi Mark,

On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 9:08 PM, <smsmail at roadrunner.com> wrote:

> I have a server running Ubuntu, Apache2, Drupal 7, Varnish.  I have  a PHP
> RESTful API that I run on this computer that takes search requests from the
> API request and then returns the data from the drupal database in a JSON
> format and shortly will be returning XML and HTML if requested.  Right now
> I have varnish setup to pass on the API requests, should I let varnish
> cache the data?


Yes.

You need to make sure that they are GET requests, though.

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