remove/unset set-cookies

Vincent cooltechemail at gmail.com
Fri Dec 10 15:17:34 CET 2010


Hi Traian,

Thank you!!

Vincent

On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 6:12 AM, Traian Bratucu <
traian.bratucu at eea.europa.eu> wrote:

> Hello Vincent,
>
>
>
> You make a small confusion. The log (varnishlog –b) is showing you that the
> backend is sending cookies, not that varnish is sending the cookies to the
> client.
>
> The cookies are removed from the object before they are sent to the client.
> This means that those cookies will not reach the varnish client (usually
> user browser).
>
>
>
> So:
>
>
>
> Client asks url -> varnish receives request, forwards to backend -> backend
> responds to varnish *with* set-cookie -> varnish strips cookie (unset
> beresp.http.set-cookie) and sends the response back to the client
>
>
>
> Hope it is clear now for you.
>
>
>
> Traian
>
>
>
> *From:* varnish-misc-bounces at varnish-cache.org [mailto:
> varnish-misc-bounces at varnish-cache.org] *On Behalf Of *Vincent
> *Sent:* Friday, December 10, 2010 3:08 PM
> *To:* varnish-misc at varnish-cache.org
> *Subject:* remove/unset set-cookies
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to remove all set-cookies from the backend but I still found
> Set-Cookie in the log (varnishlog -b).
>
> I have the following setup:
>
> sub vcl_fetch {
>     .....
>     .....
>     unset beresp.http.set-cookie;
> }
>
> and varnishlog -b shows something like this:
>
>    16 RxHeader     b Set-Cookie: name=xyc; domain=.example.com; path=/;
> expires=Sun, 09-Jan-2011 14:04:10 GMT
>
> I am wondering how to completely remove the Set-Cookie. Currently my
> hitrate is only 80%, I think the set-cookie header is the main reason.
>
> also what's the difference between
>     unset beresp.http.set-cookie;
> and
>     remove beresp.http.set-cookie;
>
>
> Thank you,
>
> Vincent
>
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