Metadata in zope / binary data on FS, was Re: [ZODB-Dev] __del__ with Persistent objects

[Chris Withers]

Toby Dickenson wrote:
> Alternatively, squid may be able to help in another way. You could make your 
> files cacheable with "Cache-Control:public,s-maxage=0,proxy-revalidate".... 
> That allows shared caches to store the file, but *always* check authorization 
> with the Zope origin server. On the second and subsequent request, the file 
> body will be served by squid.

How would Squid check authorization with Zope other than by getting the original 
file, which is what we're trying to avoid?

cheers,

Chris