PURGE http method and compression.

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <4815AA34.5040300 at wiggy.net>, Wichert Akkerman writes:

>That's interesting. So the default VCL for HTTP PURGE requests will not 
>purge all variants? How can a backend know which variants there are so it 
>can purge all of them?

It probably can't, so if your backend returns "Vary:" headers, you should
use the url.purge or hash.purge method.

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