Using pipe for large files

[Gonzalo Paniagua]

On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 5:04 AM, Christoph Mitasch
<cmitasch at thomas-krenn.com> wrote:
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> Is there any disadvantage by using a pipe instead of a pass?

Since you are not caching the response, it is the right thing to do.
(btw, see http://phk.freebsd.dk/misc/varnish.gif)
Make sure you close the backend connection after the first request
(https://www.varnish-cache.org/trac/wiki/VCLExamplePipe)

-Gonzalo