varnish regex

[Vitaly Burshteyn]

Sorry 

I somehow forgot the NOT part.

I need it not to cache that url.

Vitaly Burshteyn
Senior Network Engineer
Broadway.com, Theatre Direct International
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-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Loftis [mailto:mloftis at wgops.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 12:21 PM
To: Vitaly Burshteyn
Cc: varnish-misc
Subject: Re: varnish regex

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Vitaly Burshteyn
<vburshteyn at broadway.com> wrote:
> Hi folks,
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> I have a set of url's that I need to make sure that varnish does cache.  The
> url patern looks like this:
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> Siteurl/r/anynumber
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> if (req.url ~ "/r/*/") {
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>         return(pass);
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>     }
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> Or
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> if (req.url ~ "^/r/\d+/$") {
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>         return(pass);
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>     }
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> Sorry about this question, but I am not sure how varnish processes regex
> values.


First, return (lookup) not pass.  Lookup pushes it into the cache
hash/lookup routine for a fetch/hit.  Secondly if there's no trailing
/ in your requested URLs, then make sure it doesn't appear in your
pattern either.  The regular expression flavor is PCRE/libpcre.

Even if you return lookup you're not guarenteed to cache.  POSTs,
things with cookies don't get cached.
http://www.varnish-cache.org/docs/2.1/reference/vcl.html for VCL
reference and the default VCL.

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