Hi Chris, On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 9:42 PM, Chris Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > IF (big IF) I'm reading things right here, it looks like I can > rewrite the host name in vcl_recv after the request is received but > before the fetch. If I do this in vcl_recv; > > if (req.http.host ~ "^old.host.edu") { > set req.http.host = "new.host.edu"; > } > > will the request go to the new host?
Not unless you explicitly set the backend later. The only thing you do here is to set a new Host: header, which makes sense, btw. > The idea is to stop varnish from basically cache everything twice since > both new.host and old.host point to the same set of pages. > I don't want varnish doing double duty > here. All varish knows is that the URLs are different and if I > understand correctly will treat them as different sets of pages > caching both. You assume correctly. The default is that varnish uses the Host and the URL as key, you can check out the vcl_hash subroutine in the default VCL. -- Per Buer, Varnish Software Phone: +47 21 98 92 61 / Mobile: +47 958 39 117 / Skype: per.buer Varnish makes websites fly! Want to learn more about Varnish? http://www.varnish-software.com/whitepapers _______________________________________________ varnish-misc mailing list [email protected] http://www.varnish-cache.org/lists/mailman/listinfo/varnish-misc
