Varnish GET/POST cache Invalidation

[Thomas Lecomte]

On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 12:57:06PM +0530, Behzad Altaf wrote:
> Thank you so much for your reply Thomas.
> 
> I have not made any changes in the default VCL.
> 
> Is the expectation wrong?
> 
> GET on URL  --> CACHES
> POST/PUT on same URL --> Invalidates

Yes, your expectation is wrong. The default VCL will pass POST/PUT
requests to the backend, but it won't invalidate the cache.

To invalidate the cache using an HTTP method, you need to implement that
in the VCL.

Have a look at the following documentation:

https://www.varnish-cache.org/docs/3.0/tutorial/purging.html#http-purges

Regards,

-- 
Thomas Lecomte / Sysadmin
Virtual Expo  / Marseille, France