HTTP ?

Brad Fitzpatrick brad at danga.com
Wed Nov 17 07:13:46 PST 2004


I love HTTP, but I still recognize this as a little sick.

I'd take a patch, though!  :-)


On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, John Allspaw wrote:

> What I mean is this...
>
> Currently, as I understand it, memcached listens on a socket (IP/port)
> and takes traffic from clients in various ways (php, perl, etc.) but
> the protocol it talks is all raw TCP, yes ?
>
> I'm wondering if anyone has written an HTTP (specifically 1.1) wrapper
> for this traffic, so a POST could set/add/replace a key, and a GET
> could get one.  In other words, you'd ask the memcached for data via a
> URL.
>
> any thoughts ?
> --john
>
>
>
> On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 14:22:49 +0100, Joachim Bauernberger
> <joachim at bauernberger.org> wrote:
> > Hi John,
> >
> > On Tuesday 16 November 2004 23:23, John Allspaw wrote:
> > > Has anyone tried/failed/succeeded in putting a HTTP interface onto
> > > memcached ?
> >
> > ... not sure if I understand your question.
> >
> > I have implemented caching of dynamic HTML content for my client in order to
> > reduce backend requests using the Perl interface, Apache and FastCGI.
> >
> > It works like a charm! With memcached's STAT interface you can build a
> > realtime statistic for your cachehitrate (and monitoring in our case ...)
> >
> > Maybe let us know more about what you are trying to achieve.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > ~/joachim
> >
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > > john
> >
> > --
> > ICQ: 214527045
> > URL: http://www.bauernberger.org/
> >
>
>


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