document advantage of this plugin against restic-server behind caddy/reverse proxy

[wrohdewald]

Hi,

I am using the standard caddy package from Debian. Before delving into how to extend caddy with your plugin and how to ensure automatic security updates, I might just run restic-server behind a caddy frontend - already doing that with other servers.

What advantage would your plugin have in this situation? The README only compares against restic-server without any caddy

[jtru]

There's at least these two advantages that I can think of:

• Improved system efficiency, because you don't have to use IPC to pass application traffic around between two distinct processes
• Less complexity for logging, because you don't have to drag the interesting metadata across protocol and process boundaries (with kludges like X-Forwarded-For for the TCP peer address et al.)