Caching details of objects in varnish...

[Jeff Anderson]

Actually yes query stripping is what I want to do on the inbound  
request not on the fetch.  My mistake for not being clear.


On Feb 10, 2009, at 1:39 AM, Paras Fadte wrote:

> query stripping ?
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 10:05 PM, Jeff Anderson <jeff at funnyordie.com>  
> wrote:
>> Is there a way in VCL to cache just the base html of a page without
>> its parameters?  For example:
>> /advertproviderformat.html?provider=2342342&foo=3434&bar=34213142
>> Is the entire url cached or just the advertprovider.html portion?   
>> It seems
>> the whole url is cached because I observe so many misses for these  
>> calls.
>> The parameters are nearly always random so caching the entire url is
>> very inefficient.  I've tried in vcl_fetch:
>> if obj.url ~ 'advertproviderformat.html {
>>   set obj.ttl = 24h;
>> }
>> But I think it is just caching the entire url which extremely  
>> inefficient.
>> How can I just instruct varnish to serve the  
>> advertproviderformat.html when
>> it receives one of the full url requests?  How can I handle this in  
>> VCL?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> --Jeff
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--Jeff
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