Proxy HEAD requests

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Vladimir Li

• April 05, 2017 21:39

According to the docs here, HEAD requests get converted to GET requests and cached. Can I explicitly look up HEAD requests and in case of a miss pass them to the backend as HEAD?

https://docs.fastly.com/guides/debugging/using-get-instead-of-head-for-command-line-caching-tests

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  Peter Wohlers

  • April 05, 2017 22:27

  Hi Vlad- If you capture the HEAD in vcl_recv and return(pass) it should work.

  But otherwise, for a cacheable object we're going to fetch the object.

  --Peter

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  Vladimir Li

  • April 05, 2017 23:13

  Is it possible to cache the object though? I have modified the Fastly VCL boilerplate to do exactly that, but I would still like to cache the HEAD request according to the Cache-Control header returned in the response.

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