Can Varnish do this?

[Bedis 9]

Hi,

Varnish is a pure reverse-proxy.
So I doubt you can do what you're saying.

rgs

On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 12:10 AM, zabrane Mikael <zabrane3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi List,
> I'm new to Varnish, so please apologize if the question was already asked
> before.
> I've a homemade web server running on my intranet. It works like this:
> 1. If an HTTP request arrives without a special header "X-RAWDATA: ...",
> this web server forward the request to the live Web, get the response, and
> send it back (i.e it plays a role of a basic proxy).
> 2. Now, if a request contains the special header "X-RAWDATA: ...", then the
> web server will search the response in
> its internal database (complex computations), and send it back.
> Point 2 works very very well. But not point 1 as my web server isn't a true
> HTTP proxy.
> So, my question is simple:
> Could I tell Varnish to inspect the HTTP headers, and decide:
> a. If the special header "X-RAWDATA: ..." doesn't exists, let the request go
> to the live Web directly.
> b. Otherwise, forward the request to my web server.
> Hope I'm clear guys.
> Thanks in advance.
> --
> Zab
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