Open lpaolini opened 2 weeks ago
Hi @lpaolini !
I understand Varnish is supposed to be transparent
What gave you that idea? :-)
TL;DR: it caters to the most common case for beginners.
As the default.vcl
is really an entry-level solution so that new users don't have to write code to plug into their origin. From experience, users tend to discover the solution locally and just visit http://127.0.0.1
, so aligning the host
header with the host name prevents a bunch of issues where the origin returns a 400 or 404.
That being said, there's a case to be made about allowing a different host
header with an environment variable, and I'm very happy to review PRs coming my way.
As always, I'm open to counter-arguments, I might very well have missed a factor in this discussion
I understand Varnish is supposed to be transparent, so why is the original
Host
request header replaced with backend'shost:port
in default configuration (default.vcl, lines 37-42)?