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kelvin1111111 at gmail

Apr 13, 2012, 4:13 AM

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Cache HTTP 404 Page

I am not sure if this is workable, is these a way for Varnish to cache 404 page?

I have a HTTP flood attack to the website, and they always target
invalid URL, I do not want these traffic to go to backend server.

Of course I could do more on network layer, but unfortunately it's out
of my control and it always takes longer time for change request :)

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apj at mutt

Apr 13, 2012, 4:33 AM

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Re: Cache HTTP 404 Page [In reply to]

On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 07:13:42PM +0800, Kelvin Loke wrote:

> I am not sure if this is workable, is these a way for Varnish to cache 404 page?

Varnish will do so by default. If it doesn't, it's because you have VCL or
backend headers (Expires or Cache-Control) preventing the caching.

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kelvin1111111 at gmail

Apr 13, 2012, 4:54 AM

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Re: Cache HTTP 404 Page [In reply to]

Thanks Andreas, just realized that the backend server sets "Age: 0",
this might the reason why Varnish didn't cache 404 page.

By the way, if Varnish will cache 404 by default, what is the default
TTL for this? Is there a way to set a custom TTL for 404 caching?

On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 7:33 PM, Andreas Plesner Jacobsen <apj [at] mutt> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 07:13:42PM +0800, Kelvin Loke wrote:
>
>> I am not sure if this is workable, is these a way for Varnish to cache 404 page?
>
> Varnish will do so by default. If it doesn't, it's because you have VCL or
> backend headers (Expires or Cache-Control) preventing the caching.
>
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Apr 13, 2012, 5:26 AM

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Re: Cache HTTP 404 Page [In reply to]

On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 07:54:19PM +0800, Kelvin Loke wrote:

> >> I am not sure if this is workable, is these a way for Varnish to cache 404 page?
> >
> > Varnish will do so by default. If it doesn't, it's because you have VCL or
> > backend headers (Expires or Cache-Control) preventing the caching.
>
> Thanks Andreas, just realized that the backend server sets "Age: 0",
> this might the reason why Varnish didn't cache 404 page.

No. Age is used to provide clients an indication of how long an object has been
stored in a cache.

> By the way, if Varnish will cache 404 by default, what is the default
> TTL for this? Is there a way to set a custom TTL for 404 caching?

Same as for every other object: derived from cache-control (max-age, s-maxage),
expires or default_ttl

Please fix your quoting.

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Apr 13, 2012, 5:33 AM

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Re: Cache HTTP 404 Page [In reply to]

On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 02:26:56PM +0200, Andreas Plesner Jacobsen wrote:
>
> Same as for every other object: derived from cache-control (max-age, s-maxage),
> expires or default_ttl

Or of course set by VCL

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