[Zope-dev] Re: How to make Zope fail nicely under high load?

[Tres Seaver]

Bjorn Stabell wrote:

> If you run Apache as a caching reverse proxy (caching surrogate server)
> then images will be served from Apache.  Only the dynamic HTML pages are
> served from Zope, so having them fail without regards to sessions is
> relatively okay.  Images and other static content are almost guaranteed
> to load correctly, and if  they didn't, a straight reload from the
> client will not reload cached images.

Impatient clients often "force" reloads;  I don't *think* Apache has a 
knob which allows a surrogate / acceloerator proxy to ignore the spec 
(which is written assuming "forward" proxies), and serve from cache anyway.

Tres.
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