varnish akamai interaction

[Ken Brownfield]

Quite a coincidence... We've moved some traffic /off/ of Akamai, but  
only today did we start stacking.

I don't expect there to be any problems *EXCEPT* in the 304 response  
case -- currently Varnish strips the Expires and Cache-Control (among  
other) headers from 304 Not Modified responses, which could be  
problematic for browsers and Akamai alike.  See ticket #529.

Rogério Schneider wrote a patch which Tollef Fog Heen checked into  
trunk.  A version of the patch ported to 2.0.4 is attached to that  
ticket, and has been stable in our production 2.0.4 environment for  
the last day or two.  Cache and 304 behavior seems correct.

However, it may depend on your Akamai config.  We emit Expires, which  
we have Akamai use to control caching.  Our default is to not cache in  
the absense of Expires and not touch any headers.  Depending on your  
Akamai config, YMMV.

Hope it helps,
-- 
Ken


On Jul 28, 2009, at 1:50 PM, Raymond Hall wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I'm wondering if anyone here has akamaized an already varinsh
> accelerated website, and if so, what experiences did you get?
> I'm especially interested in the Cache-Control, Expires, Last-Modified
> headers interaction.
>
> regards,
> Ray
>
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