redirect in varnish

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20080806145732.GA85993 at fupp.net>, Anders Nordby writes:
>Hi,
>
>On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 02:28:01PM +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>>>Instead of doing a redirect, it fetches pages off the default backend.
>>>Why? How do I redirect to another URL on a different host, not served by
>>>Varnish?
>> You need to define that host as a backend.
>
>Did that (and changed req.http.url to req.url - my mistake). This makes
>Varnish fetch the content on that url/host, but instead of redirecting
>(301/302 http code) it just fetches and returns the content (200 http
>code). I want to redirect, not just fetch the content. Also it would be
>nice to specify 301 or 302 http code for the redirect.

	error 301;

Set the headers in vcl_error{}

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