Forward single request to upstream server via proxy_store !!

[shahzaib shahzaib]

>>In general it shouldn’t since the ‘?start=’ is handled by nginx and not
varnish, but I’m not exactly sure how the mp4 module of nginx handles a
proxied request.
You have to test it.

Sure, i'll test it.

sub vcl_fetch {
return (pass);
}

You're right about return(pass), coalescing doesn't work with pass.

>>In worst case scenario imho only the first request (before landing on the
proxy_store server) will “fail” eg play from the beginning instead of the
time set.
Well, i am facing more worse scenario that first request always fail to
stream and player(HTML5) keeps on loading.

I'm already checking if there's some config issue with varnish or this is
the default behaviour(Which i don't think it is).

Thanks @RR

Shahzaib


On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 2:36 AM, Reinis Rozitis <r at roze.lv> wrote:

> It will also prevent users seeking the video because the arguments after
>> "?" will remove whenever user will try to seek the video stream, isn't it ?
>>
>
> In general it shouldn’t since the ‘?start=’ is handled by nginx and not
> varnish, but I’m not exactly sure how the mp4 module of nginx handles a
> proxied request.
> You have to test it.
>
> In worst case scenario imho only the first request (before landing on the
> proxy_store server) will “fail” eg play from the beginning instead of the
> time set.
>
>
>
>  Well, only proxy_store is able to fulfill my requirements that is the
>> reason i'll have to stick with it.
>>
>
> Well you can try to use varnish as the streamer, just need some
> (web)player supporting byte-range requests for the seeking (
> http://flash.flowplayer.org/plugins/streaming/pseudostreaming.html ).
>
>
>  I am bit confused about the varnish. Actually, i don't need any kind of
>> caching within the varnish as nginx already doing it via proxy_store. I
>> just need varnish to merge the subsequent requests into 1 and forward it to
>> nginx and i think varnish is doing it pretty well. Nevertheless, i am
>> confused if malloc caching will have any odd effect on the stream behavior ?
>>
>
>
> You can try to pass the request without caching:
>
> sub vcl_fetch {
> return (pass);
> }
>
> (maybe even do it in the vcl_recv stage but again I'm not exactly sure if
> in that case the request coalescing works).
>
>
>
> rr
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