status/usage of FRiCKLE/ngx_cache_purge. still reliable? alternatives?

[Reinis Rozitis]

> No real "vs" or "thing" IME.  nginx(ssl terminator) -> varnish -> nginx 
> works quite nicely.
>
> There's also Varnish's terminator, Hitch, as an alternative,

Sure in general there is no problem offloading varnish (done it with nginx / 
stud / haproxy / hitch / h2o .. etc and still running several setups).

But again depends on your needs and willingness to deal with larger software 
stack (that's why I said it's another topic) as you end up with 2+ moving 
parts (which have their own configuration / own resources / network buffers 
/ sockets / timeouts etc) but obviously there are things which one does 
better than other (and vice versa).

I just added it because you initially asked to comment on "nginx-native" 
approach (if we can consider a third-party (in non-commercial version) 
module as native)  ;)


p.s. for some time varnish has http2 support .. maybe at some point in 
future either openssl gets cleaned-up/rewritten enough for them to link with 
it or they find some good-enough alternative  :)

rr