Handling graced objects between varnish servers.

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <6D6E4F5A-B9D6-41EB-9B08-27AFEC5D49DB at funnyordie.com>, Jeff Anderson
 writes:

>How long can I cache objects and keep them  
>available as graced objects?

As long as you want.

>If a front end varnish cache receives an  
>object from a downstream varnish cache that was served as a graced  
>object will the front end varnish cache declare it invalid?  If so is  
>there a way to bypass that invalidation?

There is no indication passed along that an object is graced, so
the downstream varnish sees it just like any other object and will
interpret its validity based on the headers.

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