HTTP ?

[Ian Holsman]

Brian Aker wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> It would be simple enough to write an Apache module to do this. Just 
> match HTTP methods to memcache methods.
> But is that what you would really want?

you might be better off using libhttpd or libwebserver (or whatever) and 
  having memcached just reading HTTP requests, instead of adding a 
apache-module to proxy requests through to it.


> 
>     -Brian
> 
> On Nov 17, 2004, at 7:13 AM, Brad Fitzpatrick wrote:
> 
>> 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
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>
>>>
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