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Vithanage, that would be really cool. Keep up the ...

2009-06-26T11:43:36.343+05:30

Vithanage, that would be really cool. Keep up the good work.

@Aj Unfortunately youtube does not allow caching, ...

2009-06-16T22:29:52.731+05:30

@Aj Unfortunately youtube does not allow caching, they set no-store/no-cache in Cache-Control header. However we can still cache those by not honouring headers, but I would not like such hacks creeping in to the code. Instead we will provide an API for module writers so they will be able to write modules that will affect the final caching decision. By using this method one could write modules to rule out caching restrictions enforced by origin servers.

This is indeed interesting. I can think of many di...

2009-06-15T22:40:40.400+05:30

This is indeed interesting. I can think of many different applications that can benefit from this. Media caching for example - a popular video in youtube that has a viral expansion can benefit from having a distributed cache.