Question about Pass

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

James Quacinella <james at nyi.net> writes:
> From the man page: "vcl_pass: Called upon entering pass mode. In this
> mode, the request is passed on to the backend, and the backend's
> response is passed on to the client, but is not entered into the
> cache.  Subsequent requests submitted over the same client connection
> are handled normally."
>
> So when running varnishstat, what does 'Cache hits for pass' mean?
> Sicne the above says that pass mode does not enter anything in the
> cache, but it can still use the cache?

It means we found a record in the cache that indicates that a particular
object should be handled in pass mode.  This can happen if vcl_fetch()
ended with "pass", e.g. if the backend sent a cookie.

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Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Senior Software Developer
Linpro AS - www.linpro.no