[squid-users] Lots of "Vary object loop!"

Yuri Voinov yvoinov at gmail.com
Wed Aug 26 20:50:23 UTC 2015


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Btw,

when Squid will directly support gzip, inflate compression itself?

27.08.15 2:15, Amos Jeffries пишет:
> On 27/08/2015 7:53 a.m., Sebastián Goicochea wrote:
>> After I sent you my previous email, I continued investigating the
>> subject .. I made a change in the source code as follows:
>>
>> File: /src/http.cc
>>
>> HttpStateData::haveParsedReplyHeaders()
>> {
>>     .
>>     .
>> ##### THIS IS NEW STUFF ###########
>>     if (rep->header.has(HDR_VARY)) {
>>     rep->header.delById(HDR_VARY);
>>     debugs(11,3, "Vary detected. Hack Cleaning it up");
>>     }
>> ##### END OF NEW STUFF ###########
>>
>> #if X_ACCELERATOR_VARY
>>     if (rep->header.has(HDR_X_ACCELERATOR_VARY)) {
>>     rep->header.delById(HDR_X_ACCELERATOR_VARY);
>>     debugs(11,3, "HDR_X_ACCELERATOR_VARY Vary detected. Hack Cleaning it
>> up");
>>     }
>> #endif
>>     .
>>     .
>>
>>
>> Deleting Vary from the header at this point gives me hits in every
>> object I test (that previously didn't hit) .. web browser never receives
>> the Vary in the response header.
>> Now I read your answer and you say that this is a critical validity
>> check and that worries me. Taking away the vary altogether at this point
>> could lead to the problems that you described? If that is the case .. I
>> have to investigate other alternatives.
>>
>
> I'll have to look into that function when I'm back at the code later to
> confirm this. But IIRC that function is acting directly on a freshly
> received reply message. You are not removing the validity check, you are
> removing Squids ability to see that it is a Vary object at all. So it is
> never even cached as one.
>
> The side effect of that is that clients asking for non-gzip can get the
> cached gzip copy, etc. but at least its the same URL. So the security
> risks are gone. But the user experience is not always good either way.
>
> Amos
>
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