trafficserver-users mailing list archives

I have ATS 7.1 setup as a reverse proxy for a Drupal-Managed Website.  My Drupal Development
Team wants to use a feature called Cache Tags (https://www.drupal.org/docs/8/api/cache-api/cache-tags-varnish
) that is designed specifically for Varnish.

The Drupal system would send a Request with method ‘BAN’ to the ATS servers expecting
the ATS servers to read the X-Cache-Tags headers (a list of pages to not cache) and have ATS
do the following:


  1.  Purge the ATS cache of any of the items in the X-Cache-Tags list
  2.  Dynamically update a list of ‘Never Cache’ to the items in the X-Cache-Tag list.
  3.  Remove these four headers from origin responses before sending the response to the requestor:
 X-Url, X-Host, X-Cache-Tags, X-Cache-Contexts (can do this with the headers plugin)

So I have a few questions.  Can I setup a method called ‘BAN’ on the ATS servers?  I think
I can use the headers plugin and possibly a lua script to do the purging and update the cache.config
file.  If I can get the ‘BAN’ method to be accepted by ATS.

I am pretty new to extending ATS with lua.  Any help is appreciated.

Wendre Vaughan
Senior Software Engineer, Operations | Finance & Information Technology | Sound Transit
P: 206.903.7270 | F: 206.398.5223 | e: wendre.vaughan@soundtransit.org<mailto:wendre.vaughan@soundtransit.org>

Connect with us
https://www.facebook.com/SoundTransit | https://twitter.com/SoundTransit

[id:image001.png@01D29738.02F09650]