Any way to invoke code from VCL after a request has been serviced?

[Reza Naghibi]

You can do this in a VMOD via PRIV_TASK:


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Reza Naghibi
Varnish Software

On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 10:15 PM, Ryan Burn <rnickb731 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> From VCL, is it possible to execute code that runs after a request has
> been processed?
>
> I'm looking into writing a module that enables Varnish for distributed
> tracing using the OpenTracing project [opentracing.io]. This requires
> invoking code at the beginning of a request to start a span and insert
> tracing context into the request's headers and invoking code after a
> request's been processed to finish the span and measure how long it
> took to process.
>
> I recently did a similar project for nginx
> [github.com/rnburn/nginx-opentracing]. Nginx provides an
> NGX_HTTP_LOG_PHASE [www.nginxguts.com/2011/01/phases/] that allows you
> to set up handlers run after requests are serviced. Can anything
> equivalent be done using VCL?
>
> I image you could accomplish this by subscribing and regularly reading
> from Varnish's shared memory log, but I'd much rather do it directly
> if possible.
>
> Thanks, Ryan
>
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