[Labs-l] beta: upload cache is now using varnish

[Antoine Musso]

Hello,

The beta upload cache has been migrated this morning from an old Lucid +
Squid instance to a Precise + Varnish instance.

That has been made possible with:
 - Mark Bergsma refactoring the varnish class to make them realm
agnostic and thus applicable on a labs instance
 - Ariel Glenn setting up a media server emulation (deployment-upload)
from which to fetch thumbnails.

We also got HTTPS enabled there :-]

The test page with some nice cute polar bear is:
 http://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/File_talk:Polar_bear.jpeg

And with HTTPS (though you will have to manually accept certificates):
  https://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/File_talk:Polar_bear.jpeg

If you see any glitch when uploading pictures, trying a feature or
uploading a new version, that might be related to that migration.

cheers,

-- 
Antoine "hashar" Musso