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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Can you make a backend that takes a url, looks it up in the database and returns a 301? You could then cache the 301 in varnish. Thought tht will only work for GETs. Once you get into POST requests it’s another story.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><br>Raul<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> varnish-dev-bounces@varnish-cache.org [mailto:varnish-dev-bounces@varnish-cache.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Aleem B<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, May 23, 2013 7:41 AM<br><b>To:</b> Poul-Henning Kamp<br><b>Cc:</b> varnish-dev@varnish-cache.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: Varnish as a redirector for a millions URLs<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'>It's based on a DB lookup. Currently I am using NGINX + Redis and there are about a million URLs.</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'><br clear=all></span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Aleem</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 6:37 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp <<a href="mailto:phk@phk.freebsd.dk" target="_blank">phk@phk.freebsd.dk</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>In message <CA+=<a href="mailto:Uhp_pepXsb6Q_ORQpYe%2BAhWSh_yytRNjKBzBBA_FxwJb28Q@mail.gmail.com">Uhp_pepXsb6Q_ORQpYe+AhWSh_yytRNjKBzBBA_FxwJb28Q@mail.gmail.com</a>><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>>I currently use nginx + redis + lua module to setup redirects for close to<br>>a million old URLs that have been ported to a new platform.<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>Are the redirects based on rules ?<br><br>Ie, something like:<br><br> /article?ID=##### -> /#####<br><br>or is it a database lookup to figure out the mapping ?<br><span style='color:#888888'><br><br><br><span class=hoenzb>--</span><br><span class=hoenzb>Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20</span><br><span class=hoenzb><a href="mailto:phk@FreeBSD.ORG">phk@FreeBSD.ORG</a> | TCP/IP since RFC 956</span><br><span class=hoenzb>FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe</span><br><span class=hoenzb>Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>