chunked response within first session

[Laurence Rowe]

On 22 February 2012 01:59, Jammy <jammy.linux at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 21 Feb, 2012, at 7:01 PM, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
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> ]] Jammy
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> I noticed that in the fetch session the chunked responses would be
> aggregated and returned.
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> Yes this is normal.
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> Is there any concern about this behavior? Can we return chunked response
> even if in the fetch session?
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> Why would you want to do that?
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> I'd like to have varnish stand in front of the web-server, even for HTML
> assets. This normal behavior may ruin the Time-To-FirstByte metrics;)

Perhaps you should investigate the streaming support in Varnish three:

  https://www.varnish-software.com/blog/http-streaming-varnish

and currently being worked on:

  https://www.varnish-software.com/blog/http-streaming-varnish

Laurence