Slicing cached data in a Varnish server

[Per Buer]

On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 1:15 AM, Thiago Moraes <thiago at cmoraes.com> wrote:

> I'm currently studying how to deploy varnish over a backend which responds
> to REST queries such as:
>
> http://myserver.com/myFile?range[0:50]
>
> Suppose that the maximum range from myFile is [0:100]. In case I cache the
> entire file, is there any way I can slice my data in my Varnish server so
> that I can handle requests to subsets of myFile without getting cache
> misses?


Can't you rewrite the request so it'll use the Range: header? That way
you'll only keep one copy. You'll have some latency on the first request as
Varnish will fetch the whole thing.

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