When changing purge->ban in 3.0, should we also expose the VRT_ban_string functionality from VCL instead of relying on magic parsing the difference

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Fri Apr 29 10:37:03 CEST 2011


In message <8762pxfyhi.fsf at qurzaw.varnish-software.com>, Tollef Fog Heen writes
:
>| I'm sort of hessitant to mandate the one-string format, because it
>| will force some people to collect into one string, components which
>| the BAN code will immediately split back into those components.
>
>Apart from the slight silliness and inelegance of this, does it cause
>any real-world problems?

I worry about quoting madness...

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