Future plans

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <ujrodvzyhvt.fsf at cat.linpro.no>, Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgra
v?= writes:

>Yep.  I did some more testing (fixed the backend.port bug!) and came
>across at least one important issue which we discussed earlier this
>week but didn't fix: hashing does not take the host into account, so
>you can't stick Varnish in front of a server with multiple name-based
>virtual hosts.
>
>I believe that the way we want to fix this is by URL normalization:
>the URL we store in struct http should be a cleaned-up absolute URI.

I don't want to get into URI cleanup at all.  My preference would
be to do the opposite:  hash on $host+" "+$url_without_host because
trimming the host from absolute URIs is practically free whereas
normalizing them is text-processing.

If for some reason people need to do normalization, we can add
it as a VCL operation.

>(BTW, I don't like using the rr argument to http_Dissect() to
>distinguish between request and response; I'd rather have separate
>functions for each, with a common helper for the headers; but that's
>picking nits)

A lot of the HTTP functions evolved and some amount of cleanup
is in order, but in this particular case I'm not sure if I agree.

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