Roadblock for Varnish 4 vmod_saintmode

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <CAEh05VZpyTZq2pT5dAnmwEc5AZLurAfxSeznQ4BsWxWa=ie_DQ at mail.gmail.com>
, Dag Haavi Finstad writes:

>The way I envisioned it is purely on the fetch side. So 'saintmode' in
>this case will be a tool that helps us avoid picking a backend for
>certain URLs.

So how exactly does that work ?

Once you havn't picked the backend, what backend do you then use ?

Does the saint director pick another one ?  (by what algorithm ?)

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