Cookie validation with varnish?

Sam Crawford samcrawford at gmail.com
Mon May 25 19:37:48 CEST 2009


I too would be very interested in this.

I'm not sure if Simon's original suggestion is possible in VCL, but I'm
going to have an experiment and see if I can make it work.

Thanks,

Sam


2009/5/20 Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk>

> 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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