On Apr 4, 16:36, Brian Behlendorf wrote:
| --- Subject: Harvest cache now available as an ``httpd accelerator'' (fwd)
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| Date: Tue, 4 Apr 1995 18:30:13 -0600
| From: Mike Schwartz <schwartz@latour.cs.colorado.edu>
| To: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
| Subject: Harvest cache now available as an ``httpd accelerator''
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Hi Mike,
Very interesting idea for servers returning plain files...
However, I was wondering about how you handle:
- Logging requests (for statistical purposes)
- Access control (files that should NOT be serviced)
- Changes in directory indices (is it a smart cache as to notice changes?)
- CGI Scripts (In particular, POST requests and imagemaps)
- Server-Side Includes.
I think that the guys at Yahoo were doing something along these lines,
with a "front-end" HTTP server for basic requests and a "back-end" server
for more complicated ones.
Probably a compiling directive BASIC_HTTPD should be considered
for people with servers that do NOT require any of the mentioned
server capabilities, or just can NOT afford the performance implications.
- Carlos.
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Carlos A. Varela (cvarela@uiuc.edu) | U. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
NCSA SDG Research Assistant | CS Graduate Student
http://fiaker.ncsa.uiuc.edu:8080/ | fax:(217)333-5973
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| --- Subject: Harvest cache now available as an ``httpd accelerator'' (fwd)
|
| ---------- Forwarded message ----------
| Date: Tue, 4 Apr 1995 18:30:13 -0600
| From: Mike Schwartz <schwartz@latour.cs.colorado.edu>
| To: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
| Subject: Harvest cache now available as an ``httpd accelerator''
|
| ---
Hi Mike,
Very interesting idea for servers returning plain files...
However, I was wondering about how you handle:
- Logging requests (for statistical purposes)
- Access control (files that should NOT be serviced)
- Changes in directory indices (is it a smart cache as to notice changes?)
- CGI Scripts (In particular, POST requests and imagemaps)
- Server-Side Includes.
I think that the guys at Yahoo were doing something along these lines,
with a "front-end" HTTP server for basic requests and a "back-end" server
for more complicated ones.
Probably a compiling directive BASIC_HTTPD should be considered
for people with servers that do NOT require any of the mentioned
server capabilities, or just can NOT afford the performance implications.
- Carlos.
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Carlos A. Varela (cvarela@uiuc.edu) | U. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
NCSA SDG Research Assistant | CS Graduate Student
http://fiaker.ncsa.uiuc.edu:8080/ | fax:(217)333-5973
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