URL rewriting / ignoring query parameters?

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <DB38C99E-0E5F-4FD0-8505-3ED870F758CB at razz.com>, Tom Pepper writes:

>1) log the request exactly as it came from the client.  We use these  
>logs to track which distinct widget in the wild was viewed.

Varnish will alway record the request exactly as received.

>2) instruct varnish to ignore the query parameters and only cache one  
>instance of the swf for all of these requests.

	sub vcl_recv {
		set req.url = regsub(req.url, "?.*", "");
	}

should do it.

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