Cache page with dynamic query string

Travis Crowder travis.crowder at spechal.com
Wed May 2 01:54:29 CEST 2012


Thanks for your quick reply.  I appreciate it.

The tracking does happen on the front end (omniture javascript), which 
is why I am weary of just stripping it out.  Do you believe the approach 
of stripping and adding back in the query string is appropriate?

Thanks again,
Travis

On 5/1/2012 6:50 PM, Hugues Alary wrote:
> If the tracking is done via Javascript (like google analytics) 
> stripping the query string won't prevent the tracking from happening 
> as it will happen on the client browser.
>
> If the tracking happens on the backend, you're out of luck.
>
> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Travis Crowder 
> <travis.crowder at spechal.com <mailto:travis.crowder at spechal.com>> wrote:
>
>     I am pretty sure the answer to this is: It's not possible; but I
>     am hoping to learn something new.
>
>     There is a page, let's call it promo.php.  We tell a bunch of
>     people about it and append their email address to the page for
>     tracking ... i.e promo.php?foo at bar.baz
>
>     I believe in other to cache the page, I need to strip the query
>     string (since it will be unique).  Is there a way for Varnish to
>     cache this page, yet still track the hits?  i.e. Strip the query
>     string for the lookup and add it back on delivery.
>
>     Thanks,
>     Travis
>
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> -- 
> Hugues ALARY
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