Caching front page depending on cookie

[Igor Sysoev]

On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 03:30:11PM +0200, Thomas Delonge wrote:

> If a user is not logged in, the front page is exactly the same. I asked
> a question a while back and it worked for my scenario then:
> 
> http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/210602
> 
> That was when I had nginx on the front and apache on the back. I was
> using a proxy. Now I'm using fastcgi.
> 
> How can I say something like "If a cookie is not set, serve the cached
> page. Otherwise, pass to fast cgi".
> 
> I'm using a more recent development version of nginx.

location = / {
     fastcgi_pass    ...
     fastcgi_cache   ...
     fastcgi_cache_bypass  $cookie_NAME;
     fastcgi_no_cache      $cookie_NAME;  # to not save response in cache
}


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