Trouble understanding Varnishlog

[Flavio Torres]

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On 01/04/2011 06:14 PM, . wrote:
> Thanks for your reply. I'm curious as to why you suggested I remove
> the X-Varnish header? I guess my confusion is why the header doesn't
> include 2 numbers, even though it is a cache HIT, and the HIT
> counter is being incremented.
>

Hello,

It should be increased, are you testing with a simple file (without
cookies and respecting the Cache-Control header) ?

# first request
$ curl -I -H "Host: www.flaviotorres.com.br"
http://www.flaviotorres.com.br
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Last-Modified: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 11:25:07 GMT
X-Mod-Pagespeed: 0.9.1.1-171
Cache-Control: max-age=60
Expires: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 12:11:55 GMT
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
VID: 01
Content-Length: 3
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 12:10:55 GMT
X-Varnish: 1268025441
Connection: keep-alive
X-Cache: MISS
X-Cache-Hits: 0
X-Age: 0

# second request
$ curl -I -H "Host: www.flaviotorres.com.br"
http://www.flaviotorres.com.br
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Last-Modified: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 11:25:07 GMT
X-Mod-Pagespeed: 0.9.1.1-171
Cache-Control: max-age=60
Expires: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 12:11:55 GMT
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
VID: 01
Content-Length: 3
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 12:10:59 GMT
X-Varnish: 1268025442 1268025441
Connection: keep-alive
X-Cache: HIT
X-Cache-Hits: 1
X-Age: 4

# third request
$ curl -I -H "Host: www.flaviotorres.com.br"
http://www.flaviotorres.com.br
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Last-Modified: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 11:25:07 GMT
X-Mod-Pagespeed: 0.9.1.1-171
Cache-Control: max-age=60
Expires: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 12:11:55 GMT
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
VID: 01
Content-Length: 3
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 12:11:02 GMT
X-Varnish: 1268025443 1268025441
Connection: keep-alive
X-Cache: HIT
X-Cache-Hits: 2
X-Age: 7

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