Re: multiget reports Re: Thoughts on relation to WebDAV

Hi Helge,

--On May 28, 2008 11:21:07 AM +0200 Helge Hess 
<[email protected]> wrote:

>> - In a world of SSL, web-apps and sessions, caches don't work anyway
>
> I'm not so much concerned about proxy caches for clients, but reverse
> proxies for backends. Having a cache in front of appservers is really
> nice for scaling.

Right, and in a lot of cases the web service itself will setup its own 
cache which will have knowledge of the backend servers. i.e. the need for 
some third-party intermediary to run a web cache may get less and less as 
the origin servers themselves use caches for scalability.

-- 
Cyrus Daboo