vcl to avoid caching 404

[Geoff Simmons]

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On 04/ 5/11 05:20 PM, Jonathan Leibiusky wrote:
> Hi!
> I am trying to configure varnish to avoid caching some specific http
> statuses sent from the backend. Since I can't control 100% the headers they
> are sending, I should do it in varnish as they all go through it.
> What I came with is:
> 
> sub vcl_fetch {
>     if (obj.status == 404 || obj.status == 503 || obj.status == 500) {
>         set obj.http.Cache-Control = "max-age=0";
>         return (pass);
>     }
>     return (deliver);
> }
> 
> But when I try to run varnish it complains about not being able to compile
> vcl:
> 
> Message from VCC-compiler:
> Variable 'obj.status' not accessible in method 'vcl_fetch'.

Try 'beresp.status' instead of 'obj.status'. And you'll need to assign
to beresp.http.Cache-Control as well.

'obj' in vcl_fetch() was changed to 'beresp' in Varnish 2.1 or thereabouts.


Best,
Geoff
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