I'd like to set up a reverse proxy to a REST service that uses HTTPS. The proxy needs to store cached responses in redis (not on disk). If the REST service is down or times out, I want the proxy to serve stale data from redis.
The suite of proxy_cache directives in nginx seems to be exactly what I need. I got it to work beautifully, except it stores the cached files on disk. I want to use a redis store instead. I've looked into SR cache, but this seems to not provide features like proxy_cache_use_stale.
How do I get the best of both worlds? Am I going about this all wrong?
