I've been looking at this site's discussion of how they're handling the traffic loss caused by Google's redesign of their image search.
http://pixabay.com/en/blog/posts/hotlinking-protection-and-watermarking-for-google-32/ One of the ways they handle it is by having img urls served to humans end with ?i while robots like Googlebot would just see the img url in the source without the ?i They said their solution doesn't scale too well, and I began wondering if there was a way to use Varnish in the process. I've just started reading about Varnish and VCL, but from articles I've read, I thought it might be a great solution. Let's say the backend has all the img src urls already ending in "?i" as in img src="http://www.example.com/test.jpg?i"; Is there a way that Varnish could cache two versions of the page? One, human visitors would get the cached page with the?i Two, robot user agents would get a cached version where Varnish would strip all the ?i from urls. Is that possible? Thanks for any pointers. _______________________________________________ varnish-misc mailing list [email protected] https://www.varnish-cache.org/lists/mailman/listinfo/varnish-misc
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