varnish using as a proxy interfering with get requests

[Jeff Potter]

Is apache getting a Host header as well? I would expect a correct request to look like:

GET /url
Host: website.com <http://website.com/>

-J

> On Jul 16, 2016, at 4:24 PM, varnish list <maillist-varnish at iamafreeman.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello
> 
> I'm attempting to use varnish in a somewhat unusual manner, but with fairly good reason I think.
> 
> browser -> varnish server :80 -> apache proxy (localhost:3128) -> any site
> 
> the idea being to use varnish to fire off statd timing info to get metrics on operations against an number of systems, some we run, some out sourced, in a standard manner
> 
> issue is varnish 4.1.3, but I've tried other 4's, interferes with the users request
> 
> I'm comparing the request using tshark and varnishlog
> 
> proxy request can look like
> 
> GET http://website.dom/url <http://website.dom/url>
> I see that hit varnish from the browser
> 
> what apache gets is
> GET /url
> 
> I can't figure out what is stripping the http://website.dom <http://website.dom/>. My default.vcl is practically empty
> 
> vcl 4.0;
> import std;
> import statsd;
> import timers;
> 
> backend default {
>     .host = "127.0.0.1";
>     .port = "3128";
> }
> 
> sub vcl_recv {
>     return (pass);
> }
> 
> sub vcl_backend_response {
> }
> 
> sub vcl_deliver {
>     if (req.url ~ "/REST/UI/Content/CheckOut") {
>        statsd.incr("website.checkout");
>     }
> }
> 
> sub vcl_init {
>         statsd.server( "statdcollector.dom", "8125" );
>         statsd.prefix( "proxy.test." );
> }
> 
> varnish 3.0.5 didn't do this, but its statd and timing support isn't great and old hat, so I'm none too interesting in sticking with 3
> 
> Any clues where I find and disable this interference?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Neil
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