[master] ab17fec Document Vary parse error behavior
Martin Blix Grydeland
martin at varnish-cache.org
Tue Mar 19 15:43:19 CET 2013
commit ab17fecd4ddb7a163e96e80a20decf2c47e24d51
Author: Martin Blix Grydeland <martin at varnish-software.com>
Date: Tue Mar 19 15:37:05 2013 +0100
Document Vary parse error behavior
diff --git a/doc/sphinx/users-guide/vary.rst b/doc/sphinx/users-guide/vary.rst
index 4f4f475..31c3bde 100644
--- a/doc/sphinx/users-guide/vary.rst
+++ b/doc/sphinx/users-guide/vary.rst
@@ -42,6 +42,14 @@ following VCL code will normalize the Accept-Encoding headers::
The code sets the Accept-Encoding header from the client to either
gzip, deflate with a preference for gzip.
+Vary parse errors
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Varnish will return a 503 internal server error page when it fails to
+parse the Vary server header, or if any of the client headers listed
+in the Vary header exceeds the limit of 65k characters. An SLT_Error
+log entry is added in these cases.
+
Pitfall - Vary: User-Agent
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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