Need some help understanding these headers -- *is* my file being cached, or not?

Ben DJ bendj095124367913213465 at gmail.com
Wed May 5 03:13:41 CEST 2010


I've got varnish setup to cache JS inbetween an nginx front-end (gzip
compression only) & an apache2 backed serving content.

On loading my page, here's the LiveHTTPHeader result for one particular file:

		https://my.domain.com/srv/js/minified.1273021105.js

		

		GET /srv/js/minified.1273021105.js HTTP/1.1

		Host: my.domain.com

		User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.4)
Gecko/20100417

		Accept: */*

		Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5

		Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate

		Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7

		Keep-Alive: 115

		Connection: keep-alive

		Referer: https://my.domain.com/

>		Pragma: no-cache

>		Cache-Control: no-cache

		

		HTTP/1.1 200 OK

		Server: nginx/0.8.35

		Date: Wed, 05 May 2010 01:02:36 GMT

		Content-Type: text/x-js

		Transfer-Encoding: chunked

		Connection: keep-alive

		Vary: Accept-Encoding

		Last-Modified: Wed, 05 May 2010 00:58:30 GMT

		Etag: "19f3b-c911-485ce530d9980"

>		X-Cacheable: NO: !obj.cacheable

		X-Varnish: 199766821

		Age: 0

		Via: 1.1 varnish

		X-Cache: MISS

		Expires: Sat, 08 May 2010 01:02:36 GMT

		Cache-Control: max-age=259200

		Content-Encoding: gzip


The three lines I've marked,

	>		Pragma: no-cache

	>		Cache-Control: no-cache

	>		X-Cacheable: NO: !obj.cacheable



Have me confused ... IIUC, and not sure I do, they seem to indicate
the file's NOT being cached.

I'm happy to provide my vcl.conf if helpful/necessary. b4 I go
tromping though it again, can someone clarify what is, in fact,
happening to that file, according to the headers above?  I'm clearly
not 'fluent' enough in header-speak, yet ...


Thanks,

Ben



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