> Bill Stoddard wrote: > > > Haven't thought this through, but there is at least one complicated case to >consider and > > handle correctly. If the backend is chunking a response back to the proxy and that > > response exceeds the size the proxy is allowed to cache, then the proxy would need >to > > abort the caching, send the partial cached file, cleanup that file, then continue reading > > from the backend. And would we want to make this behaviour configurable? Are there > > practicle (non-contrived) cases where it is unacceptable to defer sending bytes to >the > > client? > > In the default design (I dunno if this has been changed) only responses > with content-lengths were able to be cached for this reason. > > Regards, > Graham
mod_disk_cache does not require knowledge of content length. In principle, do you think this is a problem for a proxy cache provided we can gracefully detect and handle cases where cache thresholds are being exceeded? What does squid and apache 1.3 do? Bill > -- > ----------------------------------------- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] "There's a moon > over Bourbon Street > tonight..."
