Ban URL - req.backend unsupported?

[Per Buer]

Hi,

On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 7:30 AM, Cedric Jeanneret <varnish at tengu.ch> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> I'm trying to ban some content matching the configured req.backend, but it
> seems it's not working as expected:
>
> varnish> ban req.backend == "foo_bar" && req.url ~ "^/baz/foo"
> 106
> unknown or unsupported field "req.backend"
>

As Dag pointed out, this is unsupported.

However, you could solve it by assigning a HTTP response header that
indicates the backend. So, in fetch you do a resp.http.backend = "foo_bar"
and then ban on it later.


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