On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 3:31 PM, Jesper Larsen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Varnish people > > I use something like this snippet: > > sub vcl_recv { > if (req.url ~ "^\/foo\/") { > set req.url = regsub(req.url, "^\/foo\/", "/"); > set req.backend_hint = special_backend; > } > } > > for rewriting req.url before sending the request to the backend. As you can > see I simply remove the first portion of the path before sending the request > to the backend. For urls not matching the regex I do not change req.url. I > have also enabled restarts. I am using the original url in vcl_hash. > > But I have noticed that when the "special_backend" is down my default backend > gets the request. I suppose the reason is that I have modified req.url. And > when the request is restarted it uses this modified url which does not start > with "/foo/". > > My question is: What would you recommend that I do to avoid this? Should I > modify the url in another subroutine?
Hello Jesper, Could you please describe in more details how to reproduce? Ideally with just enough VCL. Possibly with the offending transaction's logs. Please also mention Varnish's version. Thanks, Dridi _______________________________________________ varnish-misc mailing list [email protected] https://www.varnish-cache.org/lists/mailman/listinfo/varnish-misc
