Making cachefu page purging work with vary headers : one solution nuke the Accept-Language <-- is this wise?

[Laurence Rowe]

The use of purge_url wasn't the problem, more that it tried to do this
in vcl_hit rather than vcl_recv.

Laurence

On 19 March 2010 09:35, Rob Rogers <robertbrogers at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Laurence,
>
> It looks like purge() instead of purge_url() and bans are the trick.
>
> FYI, I did a purge("req.url == " req.url); wild card purges don't look
> necessary. i.e., == instead of ~
>
> -rob
> On Mar 17, 2010, at 4:57 AM, Laurence Rowe wrote:
>
>> Take a look at my improved vcl for plone.recipe.varnish here:
>>
>>
>> http://dev.plone.org/collective/browser/buildout/plone.recipe.varnish/branches/elro-better-vcl/plone/recipe/varnish/template.vcl
>>
>> While you do want to normalize Accept-Encoding (remember Zope only
>> does gzip) you still have to account for browsers which do not handle
>> gzip. As there is currently no way to invalidate varies, I use purge
>> to add it to the ban list.
>>
>> You should just set English as the only allowed language in
>> portal_languages to prevent internationalization of message strings.
>>
>> Laurence
>>
>> On 17 March 2010 10:21, Rob Rogers <robertbrogers at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> The issue:
>>> html type pages (think objects in zope) cached in varnish, were not
>>> purged
>>> successfully with zope/plone/cachefu purging methods.
>>> Images were purged. but html content was not.
>>>
>>> Given we depend on caching pages in accelerator/zope/plone this is  a
>>> showstopper. (e.g. we use this:  cache-in-proxy-1-hour for (most) html
>>> content)
>>>
>>> In order to make purging work, I had to normalize or unset a couple
>>> http.req
>>> attributes. This is what I came up with.
>>>
>>> The 'working' solution:
>>> sub vcl_recv {
>>>       ...
>>>       if (req.http.Accept-Encoding) { /* lifted from varnish site */
>>>         if (req.url ~ "\.(jpg|png|gif|gz|tgz|bz2|tbz|mp3|ogg)$") {
>>>                       # No point in compressing these
>>>           remove req.http.Accept-Encoding;
>>>         } elsif (req.http.Accept-Encoding ~ "gzip") {
>>>           set req.http.Accept-Encoding = "gzip";
>>>         } elsif (req.http.Accept-Encoding ~ "deflate") {
>>>           set req.http.Accept-Encoding = "deflate";
>>>         } else {
>>>                       # unkown algorithm
>>>           remove req.http.Accept-Encoding;
>>>         }
>>>       }
>>>       unset req.http.Accept-Language; /* is this DANGEROUS? */
>>>       unset req.http.user-agent;
>>>       set req.http.host = "my.cashmoney.com";
>>>       ...
>>> }
>>>
>>> Based on what I have read, unsetting these attributes help keep multiple
>>> cache objects to a minimum.
>>> Which is the reasoning behind normalizing the Accept-Encoding per
>>> http://varnish-cache.org/wiki/FAQ/Compression
>>>
>>> So, I guess I have 2 questions:
>>> 1) Given the site is only served in english, is there a danger of serving
>>> up
>>> the wrong hit for a browser with a different Accept-Language?
>>> 2) Will I still get purge misses for objects  cached by some browsers,
>>> like
>>> ones presenting deflate instead of gzip in the header?
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Rob
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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