[Varnish] #1223: Talking to local backend via PF_LOCAL
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Fri Oct 26 02:33:15 CEST 2012
#1223: Talking to local backend via PF_LOCAL
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Reporter: mi | Type: enhancement
Status: new | Priority: low
Milestone: | Component: varnishd
Version: trunk | Severity: minor
Keywords: |
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It would seem, running Varnish on the same host as the web-server is a
fairly common use-case. Indeed, the pkg-message of FreeBSD's www/varnish
explains how to quickly set up the proxy in such a manner, when one is
getting slashdotted :-)
However, the best currently-available way to set such coexistence up is
via localhost.
I'd like to suggest, Varnish allowed backends of the PF_LOCAL type. To
start, it can simply treat backend.host as a local path, when the string
begins with '/'.
I started hacking up a patch, but got bogged down... Do others think, it
may be a good idea?
If Varnish offered such functionality, I may be able to hack Apache to
allow it to "listen" on such ports and try to come up with some
benchmarks...
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Ticket URL: <https://www.varnish-cache.org/trac/ticket/1223>
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