#107 — support for mod_wodan

by Christian Ledermann — last modified Jan 08, 2009 01:59 PM
State Postponed
Version:
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Area Functionality
Issue type Feature
Severity Medium
Submitted by Christian Ledermann
Submitted on Oct 30, 2007
Responsible Ricardo Newbery
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Mod_wodan is an apache module which will outperform squid based setups with two orders of magnitude:

  http://www.zope.org/Members/pjstevns/HowTo.2006-07-07.3401

Wodan is a reverse proxy module for the Apache web browser. It caches web content for better performance.

http://www.wodan.net/wodan.phtml
Added by Ricardo Newbery on Oct 30, 2007 09:31 PM
Issue state: unconfirmed → postponed
Responsible manager: (UNASSIGNED) → newbery
Adding support for mod_wodan is on the list.

But it may be worth pointing out that Wodan works mostly fine without any help from CacheFu, using just the Apache config directives. The only thing we could add is a wodan-specific cache header "X-Wodan" to control expire times using the CacheFu cache policies UI.

Also note that Wodan is a *non-purging* reverse proxy cache so Squid and Varnish may still better for many real use cases.

As a side note, it seems that many reverse-proxy evangelists tend to claim that there favorite proxy solution is faster than all the others but few offer any real benchmarks to back up these claims. There is an excessive amount of hand waving in this field.


Added by Christian Ledermann on Oct 31, 2007 07:05 AM
point taken.

just add this to the documentation, that should be enough.

side note: i did not ab bench wodan I just took the quotes from those pages.

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