Perlbal module idea

[Evan Martin]

I also just stumbled across this:
http://www.lighttpd.net/documentation/cml.html
It hooks into the webserver and lets you write little snippets of code
on how to hook together pieces of pages.
It requires libmemcached because it's included in their API.

On 2/7/06, Brad Fitzpatrick <brad at danga.com> wrote:
> You want something like ESI (Edge Side Includes).  This would be CPU-heavy
> in Perl.  Look into the latest betas of Squid, which I hear do ESI.
>
> You could try in Perlbal, but I'd guess it'd be painful.
>
> - Brad
>
> On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Brian Moon wrote:
>
> > We are restructuring our network and are in need of something like
> > Perlbal that does a little more.
> >
> > Much of our pages contain duplicate data.  We would like to reduce the
> > cache size by not duplicating that data in cache.  So, our idea is to
> > cache parts of pages and let the front end daemon assemble that data
> > like SSI and send it back to the user.  I have already created a PHP
> > script that does this, but I would rather have it in something like Perlbal.
> >
> > Basically, this script takes a request and checks memcached for the
> > content.  If its not there, it makes a backend request to an application
> > server for the content.
> >
> > Now, this is where it gets more complicated.  The script then process
> > SSI type data in the content and makes additional requests from
> > memcached or the backend as needed to assemble the page.  When finished,
> > it sends it out.
> >
> > Is what I am talking about possible with a module in Perlbal?  Can a
> > module be that involved?  I know there are modules to rewrite images
> > files and this is not far from that.
> >
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