Custom response codes and content-types for memcache module

Tue Jul 22 14:18:50 MSD 2008

Hello!

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 11:50:51AM +0200, M. Van der klip wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I have recently written a patch which allows storage of custom HTTP
>response codes and Content-type headers within memcache alongside the
>actual response body. This allows us to pass the not_found's of the
>memcache module to a PHP script which can serve and store different
>kinds of responses in the cache.
>
>The chosen approach is quite rough for this first version. The memcache
>module is able to interpret two special commands prepended to the
>response body.
>
>This example serves a custom 404 page from memcached:
>
>^SET-STATUS:404 Not Found|<HTML><BODY>...

I don't think it's good idea to introduce brand-new format just 
for this.  Why not use plain http headers as proxy module does (or 
http headers with CGI/1.1 directives as fastcgi does)?  This 
particular reply can be simplified to:

[cut here]
Status: 404 Not Found

<HTML><BODY>...
[cut here]

Maxim Dounin

>
>
>This example serves /sitemap.xml from memcached:
>
>^SET-CONTENT-TYPE:application/xml; charset=UTF8|<?xml version="1.0"
>encoding="UTF-8" ?><urlset...
>
>
>Please let me know if there is any interest in this patch. If so, I
>could make it available. Without any warranties ofcourse. :P
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