Re: Plone + Squid + SquidTool

>> Not to rain on your parade.  But this is quite painful to do.
>> First ESI works with Squid 3.  And secondly I've heard
>> ESI does not work as advertised in the Real World.
>
> From Chris' explanations, it seemed to work quite well :)

Maybe I heard wrong.

>> I would highly suggest *against* this.  This is the sort
>> of configuration information that needs to be explained
>> to people.  Point-and-shoot caching does not exist.
>> It requires the person who is configuring caching
>> to understand WTF is happening.
>
> Well, I thought this was what the SquidTool would help us achieve, so 
> we could have a sensible default policy for caching, and that the 
> objects invalidated themselves when they were updated.
>

andy's work on the caching_policy_manager configuration is quite nice.  
but if you want
to manually invalidate a object - it does not handle this use case.  
that is what simon's
tool does.

>> I believe such an attempt would be quite doomed.
>> OOTB == lay people.  Lay people would not grok
>> the details of caching.
>
> Nope, and neither should they. Just investigating.
>

yup.

I was not in a good mood when I replied initially.

cheers,
alan



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