503 (Service Unavailable) from Varnish on POST request using Digest Authentication

[Guillaume Quintard]

Hi,

Could it simply be your backend complaining? Notably, I'm pretty sure
that WWW-Authenticate
header doesn't come from Varnish, but I may be wrong.

Cheers,

-- 
Guillaume Quintard

On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 4:38 PM, Sergio Rus <sergio at sergiorus.com> wrote:

> Varnish 3 is quite old, I know. But it's still supported by Ubuntu 14 LTS.
> That's why I'm still using it. I will move to a recent version soon.
>
> In regards to the issue, I don't have any return(error) in the VCL I
> wrote. So maybe it's coming from somewhere in the default VCL?
>
> I read about those parameters you mentioned already, and even increased
> them just for testing, but didn't work at that time, testing bigger files.
> So in any case that would be a partial solution, because it would fail at
> some point with larger payloads. I'm currently using the default values for
> those parameters, 8K, which is very close to the threshold I manually found
> in the logs I posted. If you see the payload size, it's nearly 8K. Only
> adding or removing a few bytes in the payload changes the behaviour in
> Varnish. But the headers size in any case is the same, so that's why I
> don't understand what's happening. The payload size seems to be affecting
> here.
>
> Cheers
>
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