Pass Wikimedia Enterprise HEAD requests to ATS
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	BCornwall
	Dec 16 2024, 6:08 PM

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It might be nice to just pass HEAD through as HEAD at all layers and have them be uncacheable.

This was created in response to port saturation due to HEAD→GET upgrades

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Mentioned Here: P71676 WME varnish head pass

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BCornwall created this task.Dec 16 2024, 6:08 PM

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BCornwall renamed this task from Pass HEAD reqs to ATS to Pass Wikimedia Enterprise HEAD requests to ATS.Dec 16 2024, 6:10 PM

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@BBlack proposes something like P71676, which, while untested, hooks vcl_miss() so that we only trigger this behavior when we don't already have the object in cache from other users.

BCornwall added a subscriber: Fabfur.Dec 16 2024, 6:13 PM

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Pass Wikimedia Enterprise HEAD requests to ATS
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