On Jan 18, 2010, at 3:47 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <d95e1bec-1b8d-4de1-8a91-7c1c92ac1...@dynamine.net>, "Michael S. > Fis > cher" writes: > >> That's why you don't use those webservers as origin servers for >> that purpose. But you don't use Varnish for it either. It's not >> an origin server anyway. > > Actually, for protocol purposes, Varnish is an origin server. > > If you read RFC2616 very carefully, you can find the one place where > they failed to evict server-side caches from the text, when they > realized that a cache under the control of the webmaster, is > indistinguisable from a webserver, for protocol purposes.
I meant it for practical purposes, Poul-Henning. But I'm sure you knew that. :) --Michael _______________________________________________ varnish-misc mailing list varnish-misc@projects.linpro.no http://projects.linpro.no/mailman/listinfo/varnish-misc
