[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 175139] Network cache should be usable as non-singleton

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=175139

--- Comment #17 from Brady Eidson <beidson at apple.com> ---
(In reply to Antti Koivisto from comment #16)
> That should be pretty easy to implement now though it is not clear to me why
> someone would want split caches within a single client. Some sort of weaker
> private browsing mode? Things like cache shrinking policy in presence of
> multiple caches would need to be resolved.
> 
> Another approach for that would be to keep a single cache instance but
> include a data store identifier with the cache key. This would allow data
> deduplication and existing shrinking policy to function to work without any
> extra effort.
> 
> Or maybe we want to have multiple Cache instances that share the same
> Storage backend. We are not far architecturally from supporting that either.

I'm not sure which one of these approaches is better, but we should analyze and pick one to move forward with.

Upcoming OSes have clients with multiple sessions in the same Networking Process.
Ping me on IRC for details.

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