Re: mod_perl output filter and mod_proxy, mod_cache

On 14/07/11 11:52, "Alex J. G. Burzyński" wrote:
> Hi Tim,
>
> If you are after caching the responses, maybe an easier solution would
> be to use a reverse proxy - like Varnish?
>
> You would be then in complete control over the incoming and outgoing
> headers and could cache responses based on the url / inject Expires
> headers so browsers could cache them too etc.
>
> Cheers,
> Alex
>

[Sorry Alex, hit reply instead of reply-list]

Hi Alex,

I was initially also thinking Squid - but it's rather heavy.

I have not come across Varnish but having a quick look (and noting it is 
available on Debian - good) it looks like a damn good option.

I think you are right - apache is great, but the order of execution of 
modules is not well documented and prone to changing (hence my original 
question here) and trying to splice effectively 3 filters together 
(proxy, header-fiddling and cache) is probably doomed to grief.

Thanks for the tip - I'm off to try that today!

All the best,

Tim

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