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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>A restart in an esi will restart only the ESI. There is no way to restart the parent. The parent could have been sent to the client already so a restart is impossible.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><br>Raul<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span 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>Hugues Alary<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, March 13, 2013 3:40 PM<br><b>To:</b> varnish-misc@varnish-cache.org<br><b>Subject:</b> return(restart); and ESI<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Hi,<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I'm unclear about the behavior that Varnish will have if there's a <span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>return(restart);</span> happening when Varnish is processing an ESI include.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>If I do a <span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>return(restart);</span> in <span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>vcl_fetch()</span>, when <span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>req.esi_level > 0</span> (meaning that the current request is an <span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><esi:include src="" /></span> being processed by Varnish), will Varnish restart the <b>parent </b>request, or will it restart only the <span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><esi:include /></span> ? <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>My gut tells me that Varnish will only restart the esi processing, can someone confirm that?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>In the case the previous statement is true, is there any way I could instruct Varnish to restart the <b>parent</b>?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I feel like restarting the parent request should be possible considering that when Varnish processes an <span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><esi:include /></span>, the <span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>req.esi_level > 0</span>, meaning that Varnish is aware that this request has a parent. Although it certainly is way more complicated than that.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks for your help!<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>-Hugues<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>