pass user IP to file

[Bob Camp]

Hi

Is it a single file, or does each user get their own file (just curious) ? 

One way or the other you will need to be sure that the file request is passed to the backend and that the results are always honored. These setups can be a big pain with a cache, since the cache does not know much about who is and who is not logged in. It will server stuff when it's not supposed to. It can block (as you have seen) the keep alive. If this is for occasional use, you might consider a separate path to the backend for this stuff that goes around the cache. I do it by looking at the requested URL's and deciding that it's a "don't bother with the cache" sort of request. 

Bob


On Nov 29, 2010, at 4:48 PM, Andy Bailey wrote:

> I have a file on my server that checks a user hasn't accessed it more than 5 times in the past 5 minutes by saving the IP address of every request. Since having varnish installed, the file is denying access to everyone because for some reason the IP address that is being stored is always my server IP. How would I make sure that requests to that file pass the users IP address?
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> hope you can help?
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