Bug 1161600

Summary: Squid does not serve cached responses with Vary headers
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Nils Breunese <nils>
Component: squidAssignee: Luboš Uhliarik <luhliari>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Ondřej Pták <optak>
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Version: 7.0CC: isenfeld, optak, thozza
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Fixed In Version: squid-3.3.8-15.el7 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Cause: Previously, Squid didn't serve cached object, if server's response contained VARY header. Consequence: Squid didn't use cache. Fix: Bug was fixed. Result: Squid is now serving cached objects, even if server's response contains VARY header.
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Last Closed: 2015-11-19 12:20:27 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Nils Breunese 2014-11-07 13:07:10 UTC
Description of problem:

When objects retrieved from web server return with a Vary header, all requests are always logged as a MISS.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

squid-3.3.8-12.el7_0.x86_64

See http://bugs.squid-cache.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3806 for upstream bug report and fix (included in upstream Squid 3.3.12).

Comment 2 Luboš Uhliarik 2015-04-22 12:26:34 UTC
(In reply to Nils Breunese from comment #0)
> Description of problem:
> 
> When objects retrieved from web server return with a Vary header, all
> requests are always logged as a MISS.
> 
> Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
> 
> squid-3.3.8-12.el7_0.x86_64
> 
> See http://bugs.squid-cache.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3806 for upstream bug report
> and fix (included in upstream Squid 3.3.12).

Hi Nils,

I tried to reproduce this bug on my laptop:. I tried several times to download txt file with which webserver is sending Vary header in this way: 

# my squid is running on VM with IP 192.168.122.120
$ http_proxy=http://192.168.122.120:8080/ wget -O /dev/null -S http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3280.txt

In access.log file I had this:

1429699953.761   1060 192.168.122.1 TCP_MISS/200 296764 GET http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3280.txt - HIER_DIRECT/104.20.0.85 text/plain
1429700057.740   1607 192.168.122.1 TCP_MISS/200 296750 GET http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3280.txt - HIER_DIRECT/104.20.1.85 text/plain
1429700060.228    688 192.168.122.1 TCP_MISS/200 296759 GET http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3280.txt - HIER_DIRECT/104.20.1.85 text/plain

After backporting patch, which you have proposed (http://bugs.squid-cache.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3806), I'm not getting TCP_MISS, so bug is fixed.

access.log after applying patch:

1429705109.494   1082 192.168.122.1 TCP_MISS/200 296836 GET http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3280.txt - HIER_DIRECT/104.20.0.85 text/plain
1429705110.876     16 192.168.122.1 TCP_MEM_HIT/200 296607 GET http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3280.txt - HIER_NONE/- text/plain
1429705113.691     15 192.168.122.1 TCP_MEM_HIT/200 296607 GET http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3280.txt - HIER_NONE/- text/plain

Comment 3 Luboš Uhliarik 2015-04-22 12:27:24 UTC
Created attachment 1017404 [details]
Patch fixing this bug

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2015-11-19 12:20:27 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2378.html