Roy T. Fielding wrote:
A front-end cache is a completely different beast from a back-end cache. It doesn't make any sense to me to try to make them the same, and it certainly isn't elegant. SSL session, ldap credentials, sessions, and all those related things are trivial memory blocks that *are* suitable for back-end caching.
/nod - I can appreciate the distinction. That said, the we will be better for grouping front end cache providers together, with one solid reference implementation (play your optimization games in experimental providers), and likewise a framework for the back end cache providers with one solid reference implementation, and I suspect httpd gets a whole lot more simple and stable with these available to third party authors. Bill
