Support for If-None-Match header.
Jan Hugo Prins | BetterBe
jprins at betterbe.com
Tue Jan 24 11:19:33 CET 2017
Is it possible in any way to force the check before the result is send
to the client?
Jan Hugo
On 01/24/2017 10:17 AM, Guillaume Quintard wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Indeed, with this vcl code, the object is checked asynchronously. So,
> if the check fails, the user that triggered the check will have
> received the outdated object. It may or may not be an issue depending
> on your use case.
>
> Note that you can reduce the TTL further.
>
> On Jan 24, 2017 03:11, "Jan Hugo Prins | BetterBe"
> <jprins at betterbe.com <mailto:jprins at betterbe.com>> wrote:
>
> After reading this mail and doing a lot more searching in the
> mailinglist and on the web, I think it is actually rather simple.
> At least I think that I'm seeing the correct behaviour. I'm not
> sure though, it could be that the response is first generated and
> that the origin is only checked after the response has been send
> to the client. What I have now in my vcl_backend_response is
> nothing more then:
>
> sub vcl_backend_response {
> if (beresp.http.Cache-Control ~ "must-revalidate") {
> set beresp.ttl = 1s;
> set beresp.keep = 3600s;
> set beresp.grace = 3600s;
> }
> return (deliver);
> }
>
>
> Jan Hugo Prins
>
>
>
> On 01/23/2017 02:20 PM, Geoff Simmons wrote:
>> On 01/23/2017 01:56 PM, Jan Hugo Prins | BetterBe wrote:
>>> Somewhere I found an old Trac Wiki document that describes
>>> something like this, but I can't figure out if this has been
>>> implemented or not.
>>> https://www.varnish-cache.org/trac/wiki/BackendConditionalRequests?version=8
>>> <https://www.varnish-cache.org/trac/wiki/BackendConditionalRequests?version=8>
>> That
>> Wiki page is obsolete -- it was about an experimental branch that
>> was developed while Varnish 3 was the released version.
>>
>> (Maybe we should delete the Wiki page, it's not the first time someone
>> has been led astray.)
>>
>> Varnish has supported 304 responses to client requests with
>> If-Modified-Since/If-None-Match for as long as I've known about it
>> (going back to Varnish 2). Backend conditional requests have been
>> supported since Varnish 4.
>>
>> However, by default that doesn't quite work as your flow chart
>> indicates, if I've understood it correctly. If the client request is
>> for a cached response with an unelapsed TTL, then Varnish delivers the
>> cached response unconditionally, without re-validating the response
>> with the backend. Conditional requests to backends are done for the
>> fetch after the TTL elapses.
>>
>> That's the default, but I believe you can get your own VCL to
>> implement re-validation after cache hits. I haven't tried that myself
>> -- maybe someone reading the list has some working VCL they can share?
>>
>>
>> Best,
>> Geoff
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