Caddy Module: http.handlers.cache

⚠️ Work-in-progress

This is a distributed HTTP cache module for Caddy.

Features

• Supports most HTTP cache headers defined in RFC 7234 (see the TODO section for limitations)
• Sets the Cache-Status HTTP Response Header

Example Configuration

See Caddyfile and olricd.yaml

TODO

We are looking for volunteers to improve this module. Are you interested? Please comment in an issue!

• Add support for Age
• Add support for Vary
• Enable the distributed mode of Olric (our cache library)
• Allow to serve stale responses if the backend is down or while the new version is being generated
• Add Caddyfile directives
• Add support for the stale-if-error directive
• Add support for the stale-while-revalidate directive
• Add support for cache validation
• Add support for request coalescing
• Add support for cache invalidation (purge/ban)
• Add support for cache tags (similar to Varnish ykey)
• Add support for the ttl attribute of the Cache-Status header