Pass and pipe in trunk version

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <c1dd32e40805260420x7d6360d7s757ef3dd5a1437f5 at mail.gmail.com>, "anda
n andan" writes:
>Hi.
>
>According to: http://varnish.projects.linpro.no/wiki/FAQ#ShouldIusepipeorpassinmyVCLcode
>
>pipe must be used to handle POST requests, but according to:
>
>http://varnish.projects.linpro.no/wiki/VCLExampleDefault
>
>POST requests are handled with pass.
>
>    if (req.request != "GET" && req.request != "HEAD") {
>        /* We only deal with GET and HEAD by default */
>        pass;
>    }
>
>
>What document is wrong ?

Depends which varnish version you use.

-trunk can PASS requests with content, so that is how it should be
in the future.

Older versions can not, and need to use PIPE.

The default VCL built into varnish always gets this right.

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