Take a look at my improved vcl for plone.recipe.varnish here:
http://dev.plone.org/collective/browser/buildout/plone.recipe.varnish/branches/elro-better-vcl/plone/recipe/varnish/template.vcl
While you do want to normalize Accept-Encoding (remember Zope only
does gzip) you still have to account for browsers which do not handle
gzip. As there is currently no way to invalidate varies, I use purge
to add it to the ban list.
You should just set English as the only allowed language in
portal_languages to prevent internationalization of message strings.
Laurence
On 17 March 2010 10:21, Rob Rogers <robertbrog...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The issue:
> html type pages (think objects in zope) cached in varnish, were not purged
> successfully with zope/plone/cachefu purging methods.
> Images were purged. but html content was not.
>
> Given we depend on caching pages in accelerator/zope/plone this is a
> showstopper. (e.g. we use this: cache-in-proxy-1-hour for (most) html
> content)
>
> In order to make purging work, I had to normalize or unset a couple http.req
> attributes. This is what I came up with.
>
> The 'working' solution:
> sub vcl_recv {
> ...
> if (req.http.Accept-Encoding) { /* lifted from varnish site */
> if (req.url ~ "\.(jpg|png|gif|gz|tgz|bz2|tbz|mp3|ogg)$") {
> # No point in compressing these
> remove req.http.Accept-Encoding;
> } elsif (req.http.Accept-Encoding ~ "gzip") {
> set req.http.Accept-Encoding = "gzip";
> } elsif (req.http.Accept-Encoding ~ "deflate") {
> set req.http.Accept-Encoding = "deflate";
> } else {
> # unkown algorithm
> remove req.http.Accept-Encoding;
> }
> }
> unset req.http.Accept-Language; /* is this DANGEROUS? */
> unset req.http.user-agent;
> set req.http.host = "my.cashmoney.com";
> ...
> }
>
> Based on what I have read, unsetting these attributes help keep multiple
> cache objects to a minimum.
> Which is the reasoning behind normalizing the Accept-Encoding per
> http://varnish-cache.org/wiki/FAQ/Compression
>
> So, I guess I have 2 questions:
> 1) Given the site is only served in english, is there a danger of serving up
> the wrong hit for a browser with a different Accept-Language?
> 2) Will I still get purge misses for objects cached by some browsers, like
> ones presenting deflate instead of gzip in the header?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rob
>
>
>
>
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