Cookie issue

Morten Bekkelund morten at startsiden.no
Fri Oct 3 15:44:50 CEST 2008


Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> ]] Morten Bekkelund 
>
> | I'm looking for a good approach to force a "lookup" when these cookies
> | are set, but still also force a "pass" when other cookies are set OR
> | even do a "pass" for the entire session when the req.url matches
> | ^/admin ...for instance.
>
> You probably want to do regex matches against req.http.cookie to ensure
> you only cache for particular pages.  I'd also recommend reading through
> http://varnish.projects.linpro.no/wiki/VCLExampleCacheCookies if you
> haven't.
>
> Doing pass on ^/admin should be something like
>
> if (req.url ~ "^/admin") {
>    pass;
> }
>
> in vcl_recv, so I presume that's not the problem you are running into?
>
>   
Well, I've tried that. That passes the single request to ^/admin, but 
does a lookup on every other
request since the stuff under admin uses a lot of stuff in other paths.
So it's a bit tricky :)




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