In message <1271259971.28720.86.ca...@oasis>, Taylan Develioglu writes:
>The default behavior of varnish 2.1 seems to be changing HEAD requests
>into GET before sending them to the backend.
Yes, in the vcl_miss{} path, varnish currently only uses GET to the
backend, the presumption is that if we get a HEAD request, we're
also likely to need the object body soon after.
> sub vcl_pass {
> if (req.request == "HEAD") {
> set bereq.request = "HEAD";
> }
> }
A HEAD being pass'ed will go unmodified to the backend, so this
should do nothing
> sub vcl_miss {
> if (req.request == "HEAD") {
> set bereq.request = "HEAD";
> }
> }
This will confused varnish program logic, and do nothing good.
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