I have such a plugin that I just got authorized to commit. I will do that today. Basically it's a regex ban list.
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 2:18 PM, Leif Hedstrom <zw...@apache.org> wrote: > > On Mar 20, 2014, at 1:11 PM, Tomasz Kuzemko <tom...@kuzemko.net> wrote: > > > An alternative solution would be to implement an additional layer > similar to how Varnish provides "ban lists". The name is a little > misleading and refers to banning content from being served from the cache. > In a nutshell, Varnish keeps a list of bans which can be regexes. Each > cache hit is then checked against all _newer_ bans and reconsidered as a > miss in case of match. > > > Agreed. And such a layer can (and probably should be) implemented as a > plugin. Or alternatively, you can have a plugin that keeps meta data around > what is being written to the cache, and "regex" purge based on that. Either > way, it allows us to keep the core cache lean and mean. > > -- Leif > >
