PURGE http method and compression.

[Wichert Akkerman]

Previously Ricardo Newbery wrote:
> 
> On Apr 28, 2008, at 4:21 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> 
> Well, this is very unfortunate.  Both url.purge and hash.purge are  
> command line only, correct?  Can you think of any way to purge all  
> variants via a PURGE request with some vcl tricks?

They were exposed in vcl in 1.1.1.

Wichert.

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