Re: Deprecating URL passwords in cache_object://

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 3:04 AM, Mark Nottingham <mnot_at_yahoo-inc.com> wrote:
> So I think we ended up:
>
> 1) change from cache_object:// to http://
> 2) configurable access path
> 3) drop authentication suffix (@password) from URL
> 4) enforce unique_hostname / visible_hostname / hostname_aliases as the URI
> authority
> 5) still pay attention to global_internal_static
> 6) modify manager acl to suit
>
> Correct?

Yes.

> FWIW, my original use case was to allow passing arguments to cachemgr
> functions, so we can do things like:
>
> http://{unique_hostname}/{configurable_access_path}/object?url=http://www.example.com/path
>
> to inspect that object.

This is a good idea.
It will make the cachemgr more web-application-ish, and ultimately
more flexible and powerful.

-- 
    /kinkie