Forcing backend http requests to go thru varnish

[Dridi Boukelmoune]

Hi,

I'm slowly catching up on the mailing list, and obviously I'm a bit
late. I haven't seen any response, is your problem solved or do you
still need help ?

Dridi


On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 7:05 PM, Payton, Karen J <PaytonK at email.chop.edu> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have some js in a site on my backend that does a jQuery get on an ajax
> page within the same site (so in theory all the work takes place in the same
> webserver).
> The code looks something like this:
>
> jQuery.get('/ajax?reqtype=providersearch&location='+mylocation+'&maxdistance='+maxdistance+'&cat=,'+mycat);
>
> Of course I'd like to repopulate the Varnish cache for a long list of zip
> codes, so I set up a wget that would hit this ajax page for any number of
> location variables.
> The only problem is that from within the site, it doesn't know about Varnish
> and doesn't go thru Varnish as the front end… so my prepopulated cache is
> worthless when my page hits that same ajax from within a web session.  At
> least I think that's what's going on.
>
> I thought that forcing a fully qualified url might cause the jQuery.get to
> go outside the server and come thru the Varnish front door, so I coded this:
>
> jQuery.get('http://[my.website.address.com]/programs/roadmap/ajax/?reqtype=providersearch&location='+mylocation+'&maxdistance='+maxdistance+'&cat=,'+mycat);
>
> Still no dice.  Anyone have experience getting an ajaxed chunk of data
> cached effectively using Varnish?
>
> Thanks for your help, I'm new so if this is obvious please forgive my
> ignorance!
>
>
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