hi Guillaume,

Thanks for your reply.

I think there should be ambiguity description about my question in my first 
mail.
Actually what I want is to use varnish as a cache service *without backend 
servers*,  clients can push/pull the resource to/from varnish cache storage 
using specific http method, such as POST/GET.
For example, one client can send " POST /string1 "abcd" " to make a 
string-"abcd" cached into varnish, other clients could then use "GET /string1" 
request to get this string. If Get request miss the cache, a 404 error could be 
sent (through synth command in vcl_miss).

I am not sure whether it's feasible to make the string-"abcd" cached into 
varnish. Do you have any recommendation for this requrement?
Thanks again for your attention!


Zafir Yuan

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From: Guillaume Quintard<mailto:[email protected]>
Date: 2019-08-12 14:03
To: Yuan Zafir<mailto:[email protected]>
CC: varnish-misc<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: Re: How to cache req.body and then use it in response for coming 
requests in varnish
Hi,

There are a few things to do here:
- make sure that if req.method == "POST", you return(hash) from vcl_recv 
(otherwise, the builtin.vcl 
(https://github.com/varnish/Varnish-Cache/blob/4.1/bin/varnishd/builtin.vcl#L63)
 will pass)
- but before that, add 'set req.http.x-method = req.method' at the top of 
vcl_recv, and 'if (bereq.http.x-method == "POST") {set bereq.method = "POST"; 
}' at the top of vcl_backend_fetch, because for cacheable request, varnish will 
want to set the method to "GET", so we need to reset it back

On top of that:
- you can use req.hash_always_miss (man vcl) to push new content (and avoid 
just getting the cached response)
- make sure you only cache when the response is OK, otherwise a wrong POST 
request will mask the previous valid ones
- if you are acting upon the URL of the resource itself, I'd say it should be a 
PUT/PATCH, rather than a POST, but that's just pedantry at this point
- realize that the content cached is the response returned by the backend, not 
the body of the request itself. They may be the same, but maybe not (there are 
ways to do it though)

Hope that helps
--
Guillaume Quintard


On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 10:42 PM Yuan Zafir 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi,I am trying to configure varnish as a simple cache service, which means the 
content posted by clients could be cached as an object. The content chould be 
returned in responses for the coming GET requests(with same url...). I am not 
sure wether this can be realized by VCL configuration.

Any recommendation for this situation? Thanks for any help!

I was noticed vmod-bodyaccess can cache req.body and then it could be used in 
bereq(https://info.varnish-software.com/blog/caching-post-requests-with-varnish),
 but I do not know how to put it into responses for clients.

thanks!
Zafir
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