Skipping the proxy cache based on a cookie?

[Dayo]

Seems as if I may have spoken too soon on the Lua option.

Now, it does check for the existence of the cookie and set the variable
accordingly, but I am almost drawing the conclusion that proxy_no_cache
and proxy_cache_bypass do not accept user defined variables as input as
whether the extra content from the backend in my case seems to be a hit
or miss affair and it seems the only time I can guarantee that the
content is served from the back end is when I either purge the cache or
run those two against a cookie.

Would appreciate some clarification.

Thanks

Posted at Nginx Forum: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,161969,168389#msg-168389