PURGE http method and compression.

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Mon Apr 28 15:22:49 CEST 2008


In message <FB69F04A751F144082624ED1C482C4DDE6B449 at th10ex2.sanookonline.co.th>,
 "Phuwadon Danrahan" writes:
>In my environment, we have the vcl_hash that uses "Accept-Encoding" as
>one of hash keys.=20
>
>sub vcl_hash {
>        set req.hash +=3D req.url;
>        set req.hash +=3D req.http.host;
>        if (req.http.Accept-Encoding ~ "gzip") {
>               set req.hash +=3D "gzip";
>        }
>        else if (req.http.Accept-Encoding ~ "deflate") {
>                set req.hash +=3D "deflate";
>        }
>        hash;
>}
>
>So, Varnish may have 3 hash versions of the same url. First is just for
>no gzip/deflate client. Second is for gzip client. And third is for
>deflate client.
>
>If we need to purge the URL from backoffice (web server), we just purge
>3 times for each URL by using CURL.

You only have to do one purge if you use hash.purge: just let the
regexp match everything up to, but not including gzip/deflate

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