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| <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd"> |
| <pkgmetadata> |
| <herd>www-servers</herd> |
| <maintainer> |
| <email>bangert@gentoo.org</email> |
| </maintainer> |
| <longdescription lang="en"> |
| Varnish is an HTTP accelerator. An HTTP accelerator (often called Reverse Proxy) |
| is an application that stores (caches) documents that have been requested over |
| the HTTP protocol. |
| Based on certain criteria the next client requesting the document is either |
| given the cached document, or a "fresh" document requested from a backend |
| server. The purpose of this is to minimize the requests going to the backend |
| server(s) by serving the same document to potentially many users. |
| |
| The goal of Varnish is to be a very fast, stable and effective light-weight HTTP |
| accelerator daemon, by using modern and effective technologies. Ease of |
| managment and good documentation is also a main goal of the project since the |
| lack of either one will render Varnish useless. |
| </longdescription> |
| </pkgmetadata> |
