Hi,

I need to cache requests of chunks of files using the "Range" HTTP header. The 
problem is that in some cases  the files are very large, and Varnish  downloads 
the entire file from the backend before passing the requested part to the 
client.

I've seen that some developments have been made to add support to streaming in 
a separate branch, since some time ago.
Does currently this feature will return the requested range as soon as it gets 
downloaded, and then keeps on transferring the rest, to have then the entire 
file on cache?
This would be a behavior very similar to what Squid offers.

After checking the change logs of the latest releases (up to 3.0.4), I suppose 
this branch hasn't been merged with the main branch. Is the 3.0.2s the latest 
release supporting streaming?



Also, going a bit offtopic, I feel a bit confused about how Varnish processes 
HTTP cache-related headers, such has If-Modified-Since, Cache-control, etc.
For example, I saw that it respects the "If-Modified-Since" in a transparent 
way, and returns 304 if needed. What would be the best way to override this 
behavior and ignore the header? Would it be to simply unset the header in 
vcl_recv?


Thanks and best regards.

Duarte
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