Issues restricting HTTP purges based on an ACL

[Andrew Langhorn]

Thanks Per. I'll give that a go.
I was using a tutorial at
https://www.varnish-cache.org/docs/2.1/tutorial/purging.html - maybe that
needs to be updated if it's wrong?

I'll let you all know how I get on.


On 26 February 2014 15:33, Per Buer <perbu at varnish-software.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I see quite a lot of answers but for some reason noone has noticed the
> obvious error here. :-)
>
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 5:31 PM, Andrew Langhorn <
> andrew.langhorn at digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>>
>>  The section that Varnish seems to trip up on is:
>>
>>   if (req.request == "PURGE" ) {
>>      if (!client.ip ~ purge) {
>>         error 403 "Forbidden";
>>      }
>>      return (lookup);
>>   }
>>
>
> What I'm guessing you are trying to say is
>  if (client.ip !~ purge) {
>         error 403 "Forbidden";
>  }
>
> "!client.ip" doesn't make sense in my book as client.ip isn't boolean.
>
>
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