Changing the fetch for virtual hosts.

[Chris Johnson]

On Fri, 4 Feb 2011, Per Buer wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Chris Johnson
> <johnson at nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>> Not unless you explicitly set the backend later. The only thing you do
>>> here is to set a new Host: header, which makes sense, btw.
>>
>>     Not clear on what you mean by that first sentence.  Can you
>> elaborate?
>
> Sure. You need to set what backend your using something like this at some point:
>
>       if (req.http.host ~ "^www.example.com") {
>         set req.backend = foo;
>       }

      Which goes in vcl_recv and in his case foo is a backend declaration
function that sets up .host and .port for the virtual host I want, yes?
>
> If you already have set req.http.host before reaching this things will be fine.
>
>>     I was looking through the example snippets to see if there was
>> anything to prevent redundant caching.  I've found two exampes that
>> look interesting.  They are
>>
>>     o  Redirecting the browser to another hostname
>>
>>     o  Using static regular expressions to munge an incoming HTTP
>>        request to become something very different. Very useful if
>>        you want to apply the same varnish config to all sites on
>>        a server hosting many, many small sites
>>
>>     The last sounds closer to what I'm trying to do to prevent
>> redundant caching.
>>
>>     Has anyone had/solved this problem?
>
> I think your approach is fine.
>
>
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