Monthly Archives: July 2013

Building a Varnish VMOD on Debian

Posted on 2013-07-29 by Lasse Karstensen

From the tutorials department, here are some quick notes on how to install a Varnish VMOD from source. This is slightly complicated because Varnish demands that a VMOD must be built against the same git commit (or release) as the … Continue reading →

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Setting client.ip in Varnish VCL with libvmod-ipcast

Posted on 2013-07-22 by Lasse Karstensen

I’ve written a new Varnish 3.0 VMOD called ipcast. It has a single function; ipcast.clientip(ipstring) which sets the internal Varnish variable client.ip to whatever IPv4/IPv6 address you give as the argument. You need this if you want to do ACL checks … Continue reading →

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libvmod-cookie; simpler cookie handling in Varnish VCL

Posted on 2013-07-15 by Lasse Karstensen

I’ve written a Varnish module (VMOD) to simplify handling of HTTP cookies in Varnish VCL. In essence it does the usual stuff you’d usually do with regular expressions, but with much simpler syntax and readability. It works by parsing the … Continue reading →

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