neverending saga of varnish + joomla

[Mitch Pirtle]

On 07/ago/2011, at 22:42, "Kevin" <k at kevinkevin.com> wrote:

> The problem is varnish is having a very very difficult time knowing when to pipe or pass the traffic to the backend webserver if a logged in session happens. It seems that unless you patch joomla to do its own internal checks and determine if a user is anonymous or not, and send a custom http header that varnish can read, there is no other real way to make varnish work with joomla.
> 
Hi Kevin!

You can accomplish this by writing a Joomla plugin that does these things.
> 
There are example plugins in the Joomla wiki (I'm loitering outside and don't have access right now, sorry!) and I believe there is a simple plugin example provided in the 1.5 distribution.

Essentially think of Joomla plugins as database triggers and stored procedures. When a specific event fires in the execution stack, any plugins for that event are fired as well.

Hope this helps,

-- Mitch
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