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Monday, December 17, 2012

Varnish 3 configuration

Shared caches are pretty strict when it comes to caching or not a request. This is good, otherwise it would cache requests that are not meant to be cached.

However, there is some things that can be done to improve cacheability:

  1. Ignore Google Analytics cookies
  2. Remove empty Cookie line
  3. Normalize Accept-Encoding header
  4. Allow replying with a stale response if the backend is slow
Bonus:
  1. Remove some headers to reduce header size and hide some details about the server (security).
  2. Add a debug header to help understand why a request is cached or not.


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