On 19/01/12 11:56, Thomas Dalton wrote:
On 19 January 2012 02:48, Daniel Friesenlists@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.
I suppose the 503 could be provided by the squids for en.wikipedia urls, instead of by the origin servers. That probably also means starting with an empty enwiki squid cache after the blackout.