Problem with varnish and caching

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

[moved from -dev to -misc]

"Manuel Amador (Rudd-O)" <rudd-o at rudd-o.com> writes:
> As you might already have noted, I reported a bug on varnish caching
> files indiscriminately.

This is not a bug, it is a misunderstanding.  It appears you expect
Varnish to act like an RFC 2616 "shared cache" whereas it is in fact a
"surrogate" (see the "Edge Architecture Specification" by Oracle and
Akamai, although Varnish does not yet fully implement that specification
either)

> My page sets a few cookies.  That'd be okay and it should produce
> dynamic pages, which Varnish is furnishing through my backend.  The
> thing is, these cookies are sent along requests for CSS and PNG and JPG
> and JS files, which causes varnish to contact the backend.  I don't want
> that to happen (I'm happy with them being cached by Varnish 120
> seconds).
>
> How can I tell Varnish that requests with a response that includes ETag
> (a discriminant for static files) should be forcibly cached?

This is basically the same issue as in your previous email, and the
answer is the same.

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