about http cache module

[Igor Sysoev]

On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 01:07:08PM +0800, Steve Chu wrote:

> I dig into nginx source code, found that lots of  ngx_http_cache.c
> code has been commented.
> Is it abandoned or.. Igor plan to develop it later?

Yes, it was abandoned when before nginx went to a production life
in the end of 2003.

> We wanna some features like lighttpd's mod_cache and squid, but we
> found that it is a problem for us to share a
> a cache(file system local cache) among nginx workers, any idea?

What problems do you mean ?

> Does Igor meet some problem on implmenting http cache module?

There are two things I do like in my first implementation:

1) busy lock
2) and garbage collection

so work was ssupended. However, there is big demand of nginx cache
in my company, so I will eventually implement it. I'm going to implement
many features of my Apache module mod_accel:

http://web.archive.org/web/20030610033841/dapi.chaz.ru/articles/plain/en/mod_accel.xml


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Igor Sysoev
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