On Wednesday 03 May 2006 20:44, Brian Akins wrote: > Is anyone else interested in having a generic cache architecture? (not > http). I have plenty of cases were I re-invent the wheel for caching > various things (IP's, sessions, whatever, etc.). It would be nice to > have a provider based architecture for such things.
Yes, I think at that basic level, your proposal is uncontroversial. I'd like to be able to plug in alternative cacheing modules without having to reimplement the whole thing. I would point out there's a big "grey area" here, with regimes such as ESI cacheing that are bastardised HTTP. mod_cache_http is (modulo any bugs) technically accurate for the current cache module, but calling it mod_cache_rfc2616 might be less confusing for users of other cacheing regimes that purport to be HTTP (like ESI), or that run *on top of* HTTP (like some XML-based monstrosities). -- Nick Kew
