Conditional GETs

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <3CBC6A7E-6437-48CF-81A8-B8DDD7E4B877 at digitalmarbles.com>, Ricardo Newbery writes
:
>
>On Jul 29, 2007, at 3:52 AM, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote:
>
>> Ricardo Newbery <ric at digitalmarbles.com> writes:
>>> What happens when a client sends a conditional request (either INM or
>>> IMS) and the content is not available in the Varnish cache?  I assume
>>> that Varnish will just relay the original conditional request through
>>> to the backend.
>>
>> No, it will strip the conditional header before requesting the page  =
>
>> from
>> the backend.
>
>
>Okay, I think I understand.  So with Varnish in front, using the  =
>
>default VCL, there is no set of circumstances that will ever result  =
>
>in a conditional request to the backend.  Correct?

Correct.

>But I can still change this behavior with a custom VCL.  Correct?
>
>Would the following work:
>
>
># perpetually refresh my cache
>vcl_timeout {
>         fetch;
>}

This is not implemented yet, but once we have it...

># if not available in cache, pass client's IMS to backend
># and pass response back to client without caching
>vcl_miss {
>         if (req.http.If-Modified-Since) {
>                 pass;
>         }
>}

This should work.

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