Objects in grace while backend is down

[Audun Ytterdal]

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Kristian Lyngstol
<kristian at redpill-linpro.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 09:53:05PM -0400, Javier Frias wrote:
>> Grace just doesn't seem to work when the backend is down... within the ttl,
>> the object gets returned when the backend is down, but as soon as the ttl is
>> over it, it gives me a 503  Service unavailable, even though the grace is of
>> 10hours.
>>
>> Is there a way to server objects out of grace when the backend is down?
>
> This was implemented in r3886 [1] and is available in trunk only at the moment.
>
> Also see #369 [2] regarding 'forced' grace/saint mode/attempted grace.
>
> [1] http://varnish.projects.linpro.no/changeset/3886
> [2] http://varnish.projects.linpro.no/ticket/369

Hm. One of backend application does HTTP purge at the moment. Would it
be possible to have some logic to that could enable you to say "purge
this url only if you are not in degraded/supergrace mode"

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