This seems like one of those perennial questions where the required reply is RTFM or "review the list archives because it's been asked thousands of times", but for whatever reason, I can't find an answer to this aspect of caching requests with cookies. In the examples section of the 2.1 VCL reference (we're running 2.1.5) there is an example for how to force Varnish to cache requests that have cookies:
http://www.varnish-cache.org/docs/2.1/reference/vcl.html#examples The instruction is to to return(lookup) in vcl_recv. However, I have found that that doesn't work for me. The only way I can seem to get Varnish 2.1.5 to cache a request with a cookie is to remove the Cookie: header in vcl_recv. Other docs I found also seem to indicate that return(lookup) should work. For example: http://www.varnish-cache.org/trac/wiki/VCLExampleCacheCookies#Cachingbasedonfileextensions There are also loads of other examples on the 'net that indicate that return(lookup) in vcl_recv should work. I though maybe it was cache control headers returned by the backend causing it not to cache, but I tried stripping all those out and it still didn't cache. Am I just missing something here, or is the documentation not fully complete? I don't necessarily want to strip cookies. I just want to cache, or not, based on some regular expression matching the Cookie: header sent by the client. Thanks, Nathan _______________________________________________ varnish-misc mailing list [email protected] http://www.varnish-cache.org/lists/mailman/listinfo/varnish-misc
