RE: add GETAJAX verb/method in http protocol

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-----Original Message-----
From: Poul-Henning Kamp [mailto:phk@phk.freebsd.dk] 
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 11:34 AM
To: Christian RIGONI
Cc: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
Subject: Re: add GETAJAX verb/method in http protocol

In message <4FBB98E7.9020208@tic-congo.com>, Christian RIGONI writes:

>Now, suppose the user modify an element of the page. It can be useful 
>to send a http GETAJAX request [...]

Varnish can handle pretty much any weird request, but you have to neuter some of the rfc2616 heuristics.

Before vcl_miss{} is called, the req.request is forced to "GET", you will have to undo that, but I think that is about it.

Something like this should do it:

	sub vcl_recv {
		set req.http.x-real-req = req.request;
	}

	sub vcl_miss {
		if (req.http.x-real-req == "GETAJAX") {
			set bereq.request = "GETAJAX";
		}
		unset bereq.http.x-real-req;
	}


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Received on Tuesday, 22 May 2012 19:35:31 UTC