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2 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
4 <maintainer type="person">
5 <email>blueness@gentoo.org</email>
6 <name>Anthony G. Basile</name>
8 <longdescription lang="en">
9 Varnish is an HTTP accelerator. An HTTP accelerator (often called Reverse Proxy)
10 is an application that stores (caches) documents that have been requested over
12 Based on certain criteria the next client requesting the document is either
13 given the cached document, or a "fresh" document requested from a backend
14 server. The purpose of this is to minimize the requests going to the backend
15 server(s) by serving the same document to potentially many users.
17 The goal of Varnish is to be a very fast, stable and effective light-weight HTTP
18 accelerator daemon, by using modern and effective technologies. Ease of
19 managment and good documentation is also a main goal of the project since the
20 lack of either one will render Varnish useless.
23 <subslots>Reflect ABI compatibility for libvarnishapi.so.</subslots>