Cookie validation with varnish?

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <4A13C176.6020202 at web30.ch>, Simon Kammerer writes:

>Web application sets cookie for user authentication, varnish acts as 
>reverse proxy in front of dedicated image servers and checks if the 
>cookie send by the user is a valid cookie set by the web application.

I would love to extend VCL to allow such stuff to be done, but right
now my focus is on persistent storage.

Poul-Henning

PS: We are happy to hand out "wiki" bits (drop me an email), so
people can add ideas to our "shopping list" wiki page:

 http://varnish.projects.linpro.no/wiki/PostTwoShoppingList


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