It also completely screws up the redirected from line if you CTRL+Click 
on a number of redirects. ie: When trying to mass delete redirects 
tagged for deletion.

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Aryeh Gregor wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Emil Podlaszewski <[email protected]> wrote:
>   
>> Not all requests hit the backend if you have squid or varnish in front
>> of your apaches.
>>     
>
> They do if you just set a cookie and the response has Vary: Cookie.
> :)  I didn't think about the interaction with Squid, but I don't think
> it would be disastrous.  It would have to cache an extra response: the
> redirect itself (with the cookie-setting header), and then the target
> page (with the cookie-unsetting header).  Both of these would only be
> cache hits if the requester's cookies matched the original requester's
> cookies, so nothing incorrect should be served.
>
> It does add an extra HTTP request, and therefore an extra roundtrip,
> so it would slow things down a bit regardless of caching, compared to
> the current method.  But that's true for all HTTP redirects.
>   


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