Show HN: Cappy – http proxy with file based caching

Show HN: Cappy – http proxy with file based caching(github.com)

4 points by cyriacthomas 9 years ago | 3 comments

tyingq 9 years ago |

Looks like it could be useful, thanks for sharing. Did you consider adding sendfile() support? There appears to be a python module that implements it.

Also, I see the gzip support, but you should also be able to send the gzipped file as-is (with the right content-length, etc) if the Vary headers from the client support it.

Edit: I don't see it figuring out, and sending, the right Content-type header. Or is that functionality that comes with the base class you're using to serve http?

stc043 9 years ago | |

Hi, I'm one of the contributors to cappy. Thank you for the suggestions.

No sendfile() support as of now but seems like a good addition as it probably would speed up the caching.

The base HTTP server class sends only the timestamp and version and doesn't send the Content-type header. Python's SimpleHTTPServer[1] does this in a simple-enough manner and it would make a good pull-request :)

[1] https://github.com/enthought/Python-2.7.3/blob/master/Lib/Si...

bjinwright 9 years ago |

Looks cool but now I have to rename my project. I was going to use the cappy namespace on PyPi.