Two New HTTP Caching Extensions

[Ricardo Newbery]

On Apr 8, 2008, at 4:26 PM, Michael S. Fischer wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Michael S. Fischer <michael at dynamine.net 
> > wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Ricardo Newbery <ric at digitalmarbles.com 
>> > wrote:
>>> +1 on stale-while-revalidate.  I found this one to be real handy.
>>
>> Another +1
>
> I should add a qualifier to my vote, that stale-while-revalidate
> generally is used to mask suboptimal backend performance and so I
> discourage it in favor of fixing the backend.
>
> --Michael


Of course the main premise of a reverse-proxy cache is to mask  
suboptimal backend performance.  :-)

Ric