Re: General question on Serf

Mark Phippard <markphip_at_gmail.com> writes:

> I have always been skeptical of the ability to put a cache in front of the
> SVN server. Wouldn't something like this keep a cache from working
> properly? How would a cache know about that header we added and that the
> content we returned to the client cannot be cached? I presume we set
> something in the response that an intelligent cache would look at and know
> that it cannot cache the response. But that effectively means the cache
> would only provide some value on checkout?

I'm no expert but I expect that the cache has to take account of the
significant headers: it could cache multiple versions of the GET one for
each X-SVN-VR-Base. If that is how it is expected to work then perhaps
getting the client to use the lasst changed revision instead of the
current revision would make the cache more effective.

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