Nginx, Varnish, ESI - Will that work?

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Published on 2009-12-18T12:32:04Z Indexed on 2010/04/01 19:33 UTC
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I've serveral backends (one is nginx+passenger) to combine via ESI. Since I don't want to go without gzip/deflate and SSL varnish can't do the job out of the box. So I thought about the following setup:

http://img693.imageshack.us/img693/38/esinginx.png

What do you think? overkill?

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