Pass 200 on 404

Jeffrey Taylor jefe78 at gmail.com
Mon Feb 25 21:31:24 CET 2013


Ya, passing 200's on everything would be fun :)

Thanks again Hugo, I'll set that up.

Jeff


On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Hugo Cisneiros (Eitch) <
hugo.cisneiros at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Jeffrey Taylor <jefe78 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> We only actually want to do this with our video segments. The reason is,
>> if our streaming box or our ingress box crash, we start generating 404's to
>> CF. The second CF gets a 404, we're screwed for ~5 minutes. That's a
>> lifetime for live video.
>>
>> CF allows TTLs on all types of files/rules, but a 404 is a solid 5
>> minutes cached by them.
>>
>> I'm open to other ideas!
>>
>
> Ah, if it's only these items, I think it's OK. I thought that replying 200
> to everything should confuse crawlers, robots, users, and so on :-)
>
> Give the beresp.status and vcl_error a try. I used this a lot to generate
> temporary redirects (301) instead of 200 or 404.
>
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