Joe Orton wrote:
The cleanest and simplest way to extract the session cache providers
from mod_ssl seems to be like this:
1) define the provider vtable structure in a header, ap_socache.h
2) implement all the provider backends in separate modules,
mod_socache_*
There's no central registration of new backends required like this; a
new provider can be added simply by loading a new module.
I have a mild preference for the name "socache" over the suggested
alternatives; "mod_small_cache_blah" would be too long, "mod_gicache"
for "generic internal" is a slight misnomer since the cache is not
necessarily "internal" i.e. memcache/distcache.
Still to do:
* pass a "hints" structure to the ->init to define expected object
sizes so shmcb caches can be sized correctly, along with a namespace
string which can be used by memcache as a key prefix
* doxygenify the comments in ap_socache.h
* update comments through to be less mod_ssl-centric
* test more ;)
[Patch shows diffs relative to original ssl_scache_* for the providers]
Does it make sense to do this in a branch in subversion?
