On 02 Sep 2010, at 7:01 PM, Nick Kew wrote:
Indeed. I guess my comment in STATUS was down to reviewing that
backport proposal (and checking the RFC) before I saw the other one.
I guess the real question is: why enable it in the abstract, in the
absence of a backend implementation? Surely there's no backend
that's going to be simpler to support ranges in than plain ol' disk?
mod_cache.h exports a public provider interface, allowing external
parties to write implementations of their own that are distributed
separately from the httpd server.
It is broken for mod_cache to dictate to an external implementation
that it is forbidden from caching partial responses, when the caching
of partial responses is allowed by RFC2616.
Regards,
Graham
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