Hi Chris, No, there's no official way to manually expire your cache on Varnish. If you need more control over your cache (ie setting when it expires is not enough) I'd recommend using Memcache instead.
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 1:20 PM, chris <mcclellan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Searched around a little and found no official responses from Heroku, > and no real methods, so I figure I'll ask again... is there any way to > force purge the varnish cache for a specific url? > > Varnish docs ( http://varnish-cache.org/wiki/Purging ) list two > methods. I've tried the first one (purge by lookup), sending a > "PURGE /" request to the app, but it did not seem to work. The second > one (ban list) is beyond me-- heroku doesn't offer a method of getting > to the varnish commandline, as far as i know. > > I know I could just "heroku restart" -- but that would blow the user > experience, and I'm not looking to purge all the urls -- just specific > ones. > > Any clues? I know there are ways around the cache via ajax/JS, but > that's not exactly what I'm looking for. > > Chris > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Heroku" group. > To post to this group, send email to her...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > heroku+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Heroku" group. To post to this group, send email to her...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to heroku+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en.
