send hostname?

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Mon Oct 2 16:09:14 CEST 2006


In message <ujrlknyerw7.fsf at cat.linpro.no>, Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= 
writes:
>"Joseph McDonald" <superjoe at gmail.com> writes:
>> I'm just starting with varnish, I point my backend to a name based
>> server, but the name doesn't seem to get sent down to the backend
>> server.  Is there some switch I need to get it to send the hostname
>> down with the request?
>
>Varnish will send a Host: header to the backend if it got one from the
>client.

sorry about the delay, I've been occupied with other stuff.

Actually, Varnish will insert a Host: if there isn't one, but only
in the "fetch" case.  Similar code was missing in the pass & pipe cases.

Fixed.

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