On 19 January 2012 02:48, Daniel Friesen lists@nadir-seen-fire.com wrote:
You do realize that going by what you are saying. If 503's weren't cached for that reason, then EVERY single request would be forwarded to the apaches.
I'm talking about external caches, as I assumed everyone else was. The internal caches are entirely under the WMF's control so they can be made to do whatever the WMF wants them to do. There's no problem there.