Are ESI requests limited to originating backend?

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <AANLkTinNKP1rT8x71FkHgJby0STPwWlJVRtIJM8GVr5F at mail.gmail.com>, Lars
 Kellogg-Stedman writes:

>Will <esi:include> in Varnish only fetch content from the backend that
>served the document containing the <esi:include> directive?

No, you can also specify the host part.

Your vcl_recv{} is responsible for setting the right backend based on
the req.http.host header.

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