How do you confirm cookies are removed from static files?

[Taylan Develioglu]

> Am I still gaining the benefits of Varnish if the Request Headers cookies exist?

Varnish by default will not cache anything with a cookie.

You could verify if the unset is actually reached by placing a log statement in your if clausule.

Hope that helps ( a little )

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From: varnish-misc-bounces at varnish-cache.org [mailto:varnish-misc-bounces at varnish-cache.org] On Behalf Of Chris Altman
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 6:06 PM
To: varnish-misc at varnish-cache.org
Subject: How do you confirm cookies are removed from static files?

I am new to Varnish and have read the documentation. My goal is to remove all cookies from static files. I am using Varnish 2.1.3

My VCL is:

sub vcl_recv {
  if (req.url ~ "\.(png|gif|jpg|swf|css|js)$") {
    unset req.http.cookie;
  }
}

sub vcl_fetch {
  if (req.url ~ "\.(png|gif|jpg|swf|css|js)$") {
    unset beresp.http.set-cookie;
  }
}

Question:
I am confused because it appears the static files are served from Varnish but still have a cookie in their Request Headers. How do I remove the Request Headers cookie? Am I still gaining the benefits of Varnish if the Request Headers cookies exist?

Thank you,
Chris Altman
http://my.perqworks.com<http://my.perqworks.com/>
http://prtclr.com<http://prtclr.com/>


Response Headersview source
Server

Apache/2.2.14 (Ubuntu)

X-Powered-By

PHP/5.3.2-1ubuntu4.5

Expires

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:56:42 GMT

Vary

Accept-Encoding

Last-Modified

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 21:16:50 GMT

Cache-Control

max-age=31536000, public

Content-Encoding

gzip

Content-Type

text/css; charset=utf-8

Content-Length

3339

Date

Wed, 29 Sep 2010 15:56:42 GMT

X-Varnish

2062520895

Age

0

Via

1.1 varnish

Connection

keep-alive



Request Headersview source
Host

my.perqapp.com<http://my.perqapp.com/>

User-Agent

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.10) Gecko/20100914 Firefox/3.6.10

Accept

text/css,*/*;q=0.1

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

http://my.perqapp.com/login

Cookie

perq=20; __utma=90567579.1481902958.1285699566.1285768162.1285775102.4; __utmz=90567579.1285699566.1.1.utmcsr=(direct)|utmccn=(direct)|utmcmd=(none); perqworks=c7jcfkdueap5ggtbds500al703; __utmb=90567579.4.10.1285775102; __utmc=90567579


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