Why varnish caches as the cache is stopped?

[Guillaume Quintard]

On Dec 14, 2015 17:47, "georgi.int at gmail.com" <georgi.int at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Logs didn't help me. Now I faced the same problem with php file which
didn't refresh until varnish restart. After I put the following in vcl_recv
{ the problem was solved:
>
> if (req.url ~
"\.(png|gif|jp(e?)g|avi|flv|mp(e?)g|mp4|mp3|php|js)"){return(pass);}
>
> But why I should add this after I have :
>
>
> if (req.http.Authorization || req.http.Cookie) {
>           return (pass);
>       }
>   }
>
>  and is there better solution than the first one that wills top
completely the cache? Also, I use the same config file on all servers and
there isn't such a problem now, only on this customer.
>
> This is the log of the request befor I add the pass for certaing type of
files:
>
>    58 TxResponse   c OK
>    58 TxHeader     c Server: Apache
>    58 TxHeader     c Last-Modified: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 06:40:00 GMT
>    58 TxHeader     c Content-Type: text/html
>    58 TxHeader     c Content-Length: 5774
>    58 TxHeader     c Accept-Ranges: bytes
>    58 TxHeader     c Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 16:30:58 GMT
>    58 TxHeader     c Connection: keep-alive
>    58 Length       c 5774
>    58 ReqEnd       c 2078285659 1450110658.014697075 1450110658.033298254
1.481907368 0.018534422 0.000066757
>    69 Debug        c herding
>    69 SessionClose c timeout
>    69 StatSess     c 212.233.149.2 54693 3 1 14 0 14 14 3823 211709
>    16 Debug        c herding
>    16 Interrupted  c ReqStart
>    16 ReqStart     c 1.1.1.1 33259 2078285660
>    16 RxRequest    c GET
>    16 RxURL        c /testov.php
>    16 RxProtocol   c HTTP/1.1
>    16 RxHeader     c Host: siteofmycustomer.com
>    16 RxHeader     c User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux i686;
rv:42.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/42.0
>    16 RxHeader     c Accept:
text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
>    16 RxHeader     c Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
>    16 RxHeader     c Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
>    16 RxHeader     c Connection: keep-alive
>    16 RxHeader     c Cache-Control: max-age=0
>    16 VCL_call     c recv lookup
>    16 VCL_call     c hash
>    16 Hash         c /testov.php
>    16 Hash         c termoproekt.bg
>    16 VCL_return   c hash
>    16 Hit          c 2078285077
>    16 VCL_call     c hit deliver
>    16 VCL_call     c deliver deliver
>    16 TxProtocol   c HTTP/1.1
>    16 TxStatus     c 200
>    16 TxResponse   c OK
>    16 TxHeader     c Server: Apache
>    16 TxHeader     c Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
>    16 TxHeader     c Content-Length: 0
>    16 TxHeader     c Accept-Ranges: bytes
>    16 TxHeader     c Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 16:30:58 GMT
>    16 TxHeader     c Connection: keep-alive
>    16 Length       c 0
>
Looking at the request (id 16), I see no reason for it to pass as it has no
cookie or authorization header.

Varnish seems to be doing the right thing.
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