I admin a webserver that provides mirrors for a number of open source projects and I frequently see high loads on the server as all files in a directory are stated on each listing. I would like to have a caching system for this so that if the mtime of the directory is not newer than the cached index, the cached index is displayed. This saves both cpu time and speeds up the response to the user request.
Is this something that would be received well as a patch towards mod_autoindex? What method would be preferred for the caching? I thought possibly a berkeley db file would be appropriate since the server already requires it and I didn't want to add a dependency just for this functionality. If there is interest in this, I would like to work on it. I wanted to ask first to insure that I headed off in a direction that could fit in well with other developments. I have been searching around for this functionality and not seen it so, I apologize if it is available and I just missed it. thanks, -- matt whiteley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
