Saturday, October 25, 2014

http - Varnish cache responese with "Set-Cookie" header



I have a page which sends a "Set-Cookie" header for something like the language depending on the URL. The thing is this page will get a fairly high hit rate but it's not an option right now to strip the "Set-Cookie" header so that Varnish 4 will cache it.



The documentation only shows how to unset beresp.http.set-cookie or that I can add the cookie to the hash with hash_data(req.http.cookie). As far as I see, adding the cookie to the hash only apply to request Cookies not to the cookies set by the backend.




I am pretty sure vmod_header could be part of the solution but how would I use it to cache a cookie that I match with beresp.http.Set-Cookie == "language=en_us; path=/; domain=mydomain.tld" and cache this response?


Answer



I ended up solving the problem like this:



...
# The data on which the hashing will take place
sub vcl_hash {
hash_data(req.url);
if (req.http.host) {

hash_data(req.http.host);
} else {
hash_data(server.ip);
}

# If the client supports compression, keep that in a different cache
if (req.http.Accept-Encoding) {
hash_data(req.http.Accept-Encoding);
}


# We add the cookie in the mix with the hash because we actually set cr_layout
# It should be OK in this particular instance if the number of cookies will not grow
hash_data(req.http.Cookie);
return (lookup);
}

# This function is used when a request is sent by our backend
sub vcl_backend_response {
# If we find our layout cookie we copy it to a header and then we remove it so we can cache the page
# Later after we deliver the page from cache we set the cookie from the header and then remove that header

if ( beresp.http.Set-Cookie && beresp.http.Set-Cookie ~ "cr_layout" ) {
set beresp.http.first-visit = beresp.http.Set-Cookie;
unset beresp.http.Set-Cookie;
}
}

sub vcl_deliver {
# We found that we created a header earlier to remove the cr_layout cookie temporary
# Now we create that cookie again and remove the header.
if (resp.http.first-visit) {

set resp.http.Set-Cookie = resp.http.first-visit;
unset resp.http.first-visit;
}
}

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