adding basic cache middleware, currently no cache size limit.

config/middleware.go

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/mholt/caddy/middleware"
 	"github.com/mholt/caddy/middleware/basicauth"
 	"github.com/mholt/caddy/middleware/browse"
+	"github.com/mholt/caddy/middleware/cache"
 	"github.com/mholt/caddy/middleware/errors"
 	"github.com/mholt/caddy/middleware/extensions"
 	"github.com/mholt/caddy/middleware/fastcgi"
@@ -41,6 +42,7 @@ import (
 func init() {
 	register("log", log.New)
 	register("gzip", gzip.New)
+	register("cache", cache.New)
 	register("errors", errors.New)
 	register("header", headers.New)
 	register("rewrite", rewrite.New)

middleware/cache/cache.go

@@ -0,0 +1,134 @@
+// Package cache provides a simple middleware layer that remembers
+// previously served requests and serves those from memory.
+package cache
+
+import (
+	"net/http"
+	"net/http/httptest"
+	"strconv"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/dustin/go-humanize"
+	"github.com/mholt/caddy/middleware"
+)
+
+// Example line in CaddyFile: cache 60 128mb 10mb
+
+// Cache is an http.Handler that can remembers and sends back stored responses
+type Cache struct {
+	Next     middleware.Handler
+	Lifetime int
+	Entries  map[string]CacheEntry // url -> entry
+	Rule     Rule
+}
+
+type CacheEntry struct {
+	created   int64
+	lastUsed  int64
+	Size      int //bytes
+	Code      int
+	HeaderMap http.Header
+	Body      []byte
+}
+
+type Rule struct {
+	MaxAge            int64 //seconds
+	MaxCacheSize      int64 //bytes
+	MaxCacheEntrySize int   //bytes
+}
+
+// New creates a new cache middleware instance.
+func New(c middleware.Controller) (middleware.Middleware, error) {
+	rules, err := parse(c)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	return func(next middleware.Handler) middleware.Handler {
+		// TODO: handle more than one rule? handle first or last rule?
+		return Cache{Next: next, Lifetime: 60 * 10, Entries: make(map[string]CacheEntry), Rule: rules[0]}
+	}, nil
+}
+
+func parse(c middleware.Controller) ([]Rule, error) {
+	var rules []Rule
+
+	for c.Next() {
+
+		var ageString, cacheSizeString, cacheEntrySizeString string
+		if !c.Args(&ageString, &cacheSizeString, &cacheEntrySizeString) {
+			return rules, c.ArgErr()
+		}
+		age, err := strconv.Atoi(ageString)
+		if err != nil {
+			return rules, c.ArgErr()
+		}
+		cacheSize, err := humanize.ParseBytes(cacheSizeString)
+		if err != nil {
+			return rules, c.ArgErr()
+		}
+		cacheEntrySize, err := humanize.ParseBytes(cacheEntrySizeString)
+		if err != nil {
+			return rules, c.ArgErr()
+		}
+		rule := Rule{MaxAge: int64(age), MaxCacheSize: int64(cacheSize), MaxCacheEntrySize: int(cacheEntrySize)}
+		rules = append(rules, rule)
+	}
+
+	return rules, nil
+}
+
+// Writes the headers and body to the writer
+func WriteEntry(w http.ResponseWriter, entry CacheEntry) {
+	w.WriteHeader(entry.Code)
+	for key, valueArray := range entry.HeaderMap {
+		for _, value := range valueArray {
+			w.Header().Set(key, value)
+		}
+	}
+	w.Write(entry.Body)
+}
+
+func ClientAllowsCaching(r *http.Request) bool {
+	// TODO: Actually parse the Cache-Control and Pragma header
+	// Currently this won't do any caching if these headers are present
+	return r.Header.Get("Cache-Control") == "" && r.Header.Get("Pragma") == ""
+}
+
+func ServerAllowsCaching(headers http.Header) bool {
+	// TODO: This is more strict than necessary. Better parsing needed.
+	cacheControl := headers.Get("Cache-Control")
+	return cacheControl == "" || cacheControl == "public"
+}
+
+// ServeHTTP serves a gzipped response if the client supports it.
+func (c Cache) ServeHTTP(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) (int, error) {
+	if r.Method == "GET" {
+		key := r.RequestURI
+		now := time.Now().Unix()
+		entry, inCache := c.Entries[key]
+
+		if inCache && now-entry.created < c.Rule.MaxAge && ClientAllowsCaching(r) {
+			entry.lastUsed = time.Now().Unix()
+		} else {
+			record := httptest.NewRecorder()
+			status, err := c.Next.ServeHTTP(record, r)
+			normalResponse := err == nil && status < 300 && record.Code < 300
+
+			body := record.Body.Bytes()
+			bodySize := len(body) + 100 // TODO: Better approximation of size of headers, etc. For now just 100 bytes.
+			entry = CacheEntry{created: now, lastUsed: now, Code: record.Code, HeaderMap: record.HeaderMap, Body: body, Size: bodySize}
+
+			if normalResponse && bodySize < c.Rule.MaxCacheEntrySize && ServerAllowsCaching(record.Header()) {
+				// adds response to cache
+				c.Entries[key] = entry
+			}
+		}
+
+		WriteEntry(w, entry)
+		return entry.Code, nil
+	} else {
+		// skip caching entirely
+		return c.Next.ServeHTTP(w, r)
+	}
+
+}