[master] e8384a5 remove orphans - content absorbed elsewhere

Per Buer perbu at varnish-software.com
Thu Mar 6 14:10:17 CET 2014


commit e8384a53979b44526573a868a444a32fd84bc2ec
Author: Per Buer <perbu at varnish-software.com>
Date:   Thu Mar 6 14:10:05 2014 +0100

    remove orphans - content absorbed elsewhere

diff --git a/doc/sphinx/users-guide/cookies.rst b/doc/sphinx/users-guide/cookies.rst
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-.. _users-guide-cookies:
-
-Cookies
--------
-
-Varnish will, in the default configuration, not cache a object coming
-from the backend with a Set-Cookie header present. Also, if the client
-sends a Cookie header, Varnish will bypass the cache and go directly to
-the backend.
-
-This can be overly conservative. A lot of sites use Google Analytics
-(GA) to analyze their traffic. GA sets a cookie to track you. This
-cookie is used by the client side javascript and is therefore of no
-interest to the server. 
-
-Cookies from the client
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-For a lot of web application it makes sense to completely disregard the
-cookies unless you are accessing a special part of the web site. This
-VCL snippet in vcl_recv will disregard cookies unless you are
-accessing /admin/::
-
-  if ( !( req.url ~ ^/admin/) ) {
-    unset req.http.Cookie;
-  }
-
-Quite simple. If, however, you need to do something more complicated,
-like removing one out of several cookies, things get
-difficult. Unfortunately Varnish doesn't have good tools for
-manipulating the Cookies. We have to use regular expressions to do the
-work. If you are familiar with regular expressions you'll understand
-whats going on. If you don't I suggest you either pick up a book on
-the subject, read through the *pcrepattern* man page or read through
-one of many online guides.
-
-Let me show you what Varnish Software uses. We use some cookies for
-Google Analytics tracking and similar tools. The cookies are all set
-and used by Javascript. Varnish and Drupal doesn't need to see those
-cookies and since Varnish will cease caching of pages when the client
-sends cookies we will discard these unnecessary cookies in VCL. 
-
-In the following VCL we discard all cookies that start with a
-underscore::
-
-  // Remove has_js and Google Analytics __* cookies.
-  set req.http.Cookie = regsuball(req.http.Cookie, "(^|;\s*)(_[_a-z]+|has_js)=[^;]*", "");
-  // Remove a ";" prefix, if present.
-  set req.http.Cookie = regsub(req.http.Cookie, "^;\s*", "");
-
-Let me show you an example where we remove everything except the
-cookies named COOKIE1 and COOKIE2 and you can marvel at it::
-
-  sub vcl_recv {
-    if (req.http.Cookie) {
-      set req.http.Cookie = ";" + req.http.Cookie;
-      set req.http.Cookie = regsuball(req.http.Cookie, "; +", ";");
-      set req.http.Cookie = regsuball(req.http.Cookie, ";(COOKIE1|COOKIE2)=", "; \1=");
-      set req.http.Cookie = regsuball(req.http.Cookie, ";[^ ][^;]*", "");
-      set req.http.Cookie = regsuball(req.http.Cookie, "^[; ]+|[; ]+$", "");
-
-      if (req.http.Cookie == "") {
-          remove req.http.Cookie;
-      }
-    }
-  }
-
-A somewhat simpler example that can accomplish almost the same can be
-found below. Instead of filtering out the other cookies it picks out
-the one cookie that is needed, copies it to another header and then
-copies it back, deleting the original cookie header.::
-
-  sub vcl_recv {
-         # save the original cookie header so we can mangle it
-        set req.http.X-Varnish-PHP_SID = req.http.Cookie;
-        # using a capturing sub pattern, extract the continuous string of 
-        # alphanumerics that immediately follows "PHPSESSID="
-        set req.http.X-Varnish-PHP_SID = 
-           regsuball(req.http.X-Varnish-PHP_SID, ";? ?PHPSESSID=([a-zA-Z0-9]+)( |;| ;).*","\1");
-        set req.http.Cookie = req.X-Varnish-PHP_SID;
-        remove req.X-Varnish-PHP_SID;
-   }   
-
-There are other scary examples of what can be done in VCL in the
-Varnish Cache Wiki.
-
-
-Cookies coming from the backend
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-If your backend server sets a cookie using the Set-Cookie header
-Varnish will not cache the page in the default configuration.  A
-hit-for-pass object (see :ref:`user-guide-vcl_actions`) is created.
-So, if the backend server acts silly and sets unwanted cookies just unset
-the Set-Cookie header and all should be fine. 
-
diff --git a/doc/sphinx/users-guide/orphans.rst b/doc/sphinx/users-guide/orphans.rst
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-Orphans
-=======
-
-XXX: These are chapters which need to find a new home in the other sections.
-
-.. toctree::
-   :maxdepth: 2
-
-   esi
-   vary
-   cookies
diff --git a/doc/sphinx/users-guide/vary.rst b/doc/sphinx/users-guide/vary.rst
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-.. _users-guide-vary:
-
-HTTP Vary
----------
-
-*HTTP Vary is not a trivial concept. It is by far the most
-misunderstood HTTP header.*
-
-A lot of the response headers tell the client something about the HTTP
-object being delivered. Clients can request different variants a an
-HTTP object, based on their preference. Their preferences might cover
-stuff like encoding or language. When a client prefers UK English this
-is indicated through "Accept-Language: en-uk". Caches need to keep
-these different variants apart and this is done through the HTTP
-response header "Vary".
-
-When a backend server issues a "Vary: Accept-Language" it tells
-Varnish that its needs to cache a separate version for every different
-Accept-Language that is coming from the clients.
-
-If two clients say they accept the languages "en-us, en-uk" and "da,
-de" respectively, Varnish will cache and serve two different versions
-of the page if the backend indicated that Varnish needs to vary on the
-Accept-Language header.
-
-Please note that the headers that Vary refer to need to match
-*exactly* for there to be a match. So Varnish will keep two copies of
-a page if one of them was created for "en-us, en-uk" and the other for
-"en-us,en-uk". Just the lack of space will force Varnish to cache
-another version.
-
-To achieve a high hitrate whilst using Vary is there therefor crucial
-to normalize the headers the backends varies on. Remember, just a
-difference in case can force different cache entries.
-
-The following VCL code will normalize the Accept-Language headers, to
-one of either "en","de" or "fr"::
-
-    if (req.http.Accept-Language) {
-        if (req.http.Accept-Language ~ "en") {
-            set req.http.Accept-Language = "en";
-        } elsif (req.http.Accept-Language ~ "de") {
-            set req.http.Accept-Language = "de";
-        } elsif (req.http.Accept-Language ~ "fr") {
-            set req.http.Accept-Language = "fr";
-        } else {
-            # unknown language. Remove the accept-language header and 
-	    # use the backend default.
-            remove req.http.Accept-Language
-        }
-    }
-
-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
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-Some applications or application servers send *Vary: User-Agent* along
-with their content. This instructs Varnish to cache a separate copy
-for every variation of User-Agent there is. There are plenty. Even a
-single patchlevel of the same browser will generate at least 10
-different User-Agent headers based just on what operating system they
-are running. 
-
-So if you *really* need to Vary based on User-Agent be sure to
-normalize the header or your hit rate will suffer badly. Use the above
-code as a template.
-



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