question marks in the url

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

"Brian Ott" <bott505 at gmail.com> writes:
> We have urls: http://xxxx.yyy.com/test.jpg?tsp=11301981
>
> the tsp gets updated when the picture is updated, its a timestamp.
> this way the user doesnt have to refresh their browser to see new
> pictures.

This is a very strange way of doing things.  Far better to drop the
timestamp, set a long expiry time on the image and invalidate the URL in
Varnish when the picture is updated.

> varnish doesnt cache urls with ? in them, it appears.

Yes, it does.  There must be something else at play - most likely
cookies.  Since you didn't provide logs, there is no way to tell exactly
what is going on.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Senior Software Developer
Linpro AS - www.linpro.no