Sticky clients and varnish

[Martin Boer]

Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <4BE291F8.9000304 at netclever.nl>, Martin Boer writes:
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>> Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
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>> Just out of curiosity, wouldn't that give very weird results when 
>> several people use the same outbound IP-address ?
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> No, they just all end up on the same backend.
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> Depending on your site, this may indeed be a good idea, since it
> optimizes for the "Hey, try this URL...." scenario in workplaces.
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That's true, but trying to do fancy stuff with user sessions based on IP 
addresses would give very strange results.