Cookies being sent back with a cached response

Cosimo Streppone cosimo at streppone.it
Thu Oct 8 12:02:05 CEST 2009


On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:21:48 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen  
<tfheen at redpill-linpro.com> wrote:

> | Then looking at varnishlog output, and grepping for "Cookie",
> | I saw this (unrelated?):
> |
> |   90 TxHeader     b Cookie:  
> session=bf6ac86feaed6b23bef66a8f44097eac42cf24
> | ...
> |
> | How can this ever happen?
> | The backends that serve the request never output cookies, and even if  
> they
> | did, it would be "Set-Cookie:" anyway... I'm confused.
>
> This means Varnish is sending a header (TxHeader) to the backend (b),
> with a Cookie: session=… set.  Anything received from a backend is
> RxHeader and b.

Ok, it starts to make sense.
Thanks for you clarification.

-- 
Cosimo



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