different object hashed for firefox and chrome

[Laurence Rowe]

On 10 April 2010 00:31, David Birdsong <david.birdsong at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Laurence Rowe <l at lrowe.co.uk> wrote:
>> This is almost certainly the result of a Vary: Accept-Encoding header
>> on your response (Chrome, Firefox and IE all have slightly different
>> Accept-Encoding headers). See
>> http://varnish-cache.org/wiki/FAQ/Compression and add the snippet to
>> normalise the Accept-Encoding header in vcl_recv. You don't normally
>> need to customise vcl_hash.
>>
> thanks for that link.  i've customized vcl_hash to exclude
> req.http.host which i dont want as part of the hash. my understanding
> was that this was included by default.

It may be better to set req.host to a canonical value in vcl_recv,
that way you can be sure that your backends will always produce
consistent responses (so you don't end up with some urls pointing to
http://example.com and others to http://example.org).

My point was rather that the requests still hash the same, you're
getting a different object on Vary. vcl_hash lets you set the cache
path based only on the request, vcl_fetch and Vary let you set the
cache path further based on the response. It's not yet shown on the
flowchart at http://varnish-cache.org/wiki/VCLExampleDefault.

Laurence