Operation of varnish

[Ivan Voras]

Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> If "pipe" is chosen, Varnish just moves bytes forth and back.
> 
> In the "trunk" version of varnish, everything else is fully buffered.
> In the released versions, up to 1.0.3, "pass" mode will not do full
> buffing, but fetches to cache will.
> 
>> Can varnish generate HTTP logs in the "combined" format. 
> 
> Pointer to documentation ?

 From Apache's httpd.conf, it is defined as:

LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" 
combined

Documentation about the substitution codes and meaning is at: 
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/logs.html

>> If I
>> understand this correctly, varnish would generate its own logs, and then
>> the apache could generate its own log, but apche's will show every=20
>> connection as arriving from 127.0.0.1, right?
> 
> I'm not sure if Apache logs the tcp source address or the HTTP header
> client IP# in the logs.

You mean "Forwarded-For:" header?


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