SV: reverse proxy_

[Fredrik Widlund]

Hi Maxim,

Thanks for the answer! Are there currently any plans to add support for this in the near future?

Kind regards,
Fredrik Widlund

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Från: Maxim Dounin [mailto:mdounin at mdounin.ru]
Skickat: den 16 februari 2010 16:58
Till: nginx at nginx.org
Ämne: Re: reverse proxy_

Hello!

On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 04:25:21PM +0100, Fredrik Widlund wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I am setting up a reverse-proxy system with Nginx (0.8.32) both
> as back-end and proxy. The system is used for delivering static
> large files.
>
> What I would like to achieve is caching the files on the proxies
> as long as possible offloading the back-end. I would also like
> the proxy to react to changes on the back-end, but without
> retransmitting already cached unmodified content.
>
> My problem is that I'm not able to get the proxy to revalidate
> unmodified static content  without retransmitting the already
> cached file. E.g. if I set proxy_cache_valid for 200/OK
> delivered content to 60 minutes the proxy won't react to changes
> in the back-end for that period of time, and if I set it to 1
> minute the file will be retransmitted from back-end to proxy
> every minute, if requested from the proxy by a client. What I
> would like is, for example, for the proxy to revalidate cached
> content with I-M-S set to the time of the content being cached
> and if not modified refreshing the validity of the previously
> cached content and returning it to the client.
>
> I've looked through the documentation and played with
> cache-control directives like for example pre/post-check without
> succeeding in creating this behaviour. There probably is an
> obvious answer to this question, only I haven't been able to
> find it.

It's not currently supported.

Maxim Dounin

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