On Mar 30, 2012 3:27 AM, "Michael Save" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > In VCL, the fact that you can't create your own variables at runtime > can sometimes be a limitation when writing very complicated configs. > You have to use the variables Varnish already has defined for you; > that is, resp.*, etc. You can of course use HTTP headers as temporary > variables, but that seems like a hack to me. > > My question is: why doesn't VCL let you do custom variables? If I'm > not mistaking, a .vcl file is just an easy-to-read and easy-to-code > version of a C script (.vcl is compiled as .c at runtime), and it's > not too hard to create variables in C. Are user-defined variables ever > going to appear in VCL, or is that out of the scope of the Varnish > Cache project (if so, why)? > > Thanks, > Michael > > _______________________________________________
You may find this helpful: https://github.com/varnish/libvmod-var
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