A restart in an esi will restart only the ESI. There is no way to restart the 
parent. The parent could have been sent to the client already so a restart is 
impossible.

Raul

From: [email protected] 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Hugues Alary
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2013 3:40 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: return(restart); and ESI

Hi,

I'm unclear about the behavior that Varnish will have if there's a 
return(restart); happening when Varnish is processing an ESI include.

If I do a return(restart); in vcl_fetch(), when req.esi_level > 0 (meaning that 
the current request is an <esi:include src="" /> being processed by Varnish), 
will Varnish restart the parent request, or will it restart only the 
<esi:include /> ?

My gut tells me that Varnish will only restart the esi processing, can someone 
confirm that?

In the case the previous statement is true, is there any way I could instruct 
Varnish to restart the parent?

I feel like restarting the parent request should be possible considering that 
when Varnish processes an <esi:include />, the req.esi_level > 0, meaning that 
Varnish is aware that this request has a parent. Although it certainly is way 
more complicated than that.

Thanks for your help!
-Hugues
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