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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple style='margin-left:7.5pt;margin-top:7.5pt;margin-right:7.5pt;margin-bottom:7.5pt'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>You cannot do that with varnish, or with anything else :)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Traian<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> varnish-misc-bounces@varnish-cache.org [mailto:varnish-misc-bounces@varnish-cache.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Ronny Östman<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, March 30, 2011 8:35 AM<br><b>To:</b> varnish-misc@varnish-cache.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Using varnish to cache remote content<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Hello!</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>This might be a stupid question since I've searched alot and haven't really found the answer..</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Anyway, I have a varnish set up caching requests to my backend the way I want it to and it works great</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>for all content that my backend provides.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>The problem I am having is caching content from remote sources.. I'm not sure if this is really possible since</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>the request may not go through varnish.. i guess?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>To further illustrate my question, here's an example of how it might look:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>GET mydomain.com - Domain: mydomain.com</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>GET main.css - Domain: mydomain.com</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>GET hello.jpg - Domain: static.mydomain.com</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>GET anypicture.png - Domain: flickr.com</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>GET foo.js - Domain: foo.com</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>In this example, is it possible to have my varnish cache those "remote" requests as well? I can set up backends</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>for those remote domains and force varnish to use them instead of my own backend but I can't seem to find a</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>way to have varnish do this "dynamically". The requests doesnt seem to go through my varnish according to</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>varnishlog and this makes it hard to set backend depending on host.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Am I trying to accomplish something impossible here?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Thanks!</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Regards,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Ronny</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>