[3.0] b8aa4f5 Document that lookup forces GET to the backend

Tollef Fog Heen tfheen at varnish-cache.org
Mon Apr 22 13:27:00 CEST 2013


commit b8aa4f52c37f7d4c10e91b82a9fb60b5b376ae08
Author: Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen at varnish-software.com>
Date:   Wed Sep 26 10:52:52 2012 +0200

    Document that lookup forces GET to the backend

diff --git a/doc/sphinx/reference/vcl.rst b/doc/sphinx/reference/vcl.rst
index c4b4f96..00edea8 100644
--- a/doc/sphinx/reference/vcl.rst
+++ b/doc/sphinx/reference/vcl.rst
@@ -489,7 +489,8 @@ vcl_recv
   lookup  
     Look up the requested object in the cache.  Control will
     eventually pass to vcl_hit or vcl_miss, depending on whether the
-    object is in the cache.
+    object is in the cache.  The ``bereq.request`` value will be set
+    to ``GET`` regardless of the value of ``req.request``.
 
 vcl_pipe
   Called upon entering pipe mode.  In this mode, the request is passed



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