vmod_querystring

Varnish QueryString Module

Author:	Dridi Boukelmoune
Date:	2012-06-18
Version:	1.0
Manual section:	3

SYNOPSIS

import querystring;

DESCRIPTION

Varnish multi-purpose vmod for URI query-string manipulation. Can be used to normalize for instance request URLs or Location response headers in various ways. It is recommended to at least clean incoming request URLs (removing empty query-strings), all other functions do the cleaning.

FUNCTIONS

clean

Prototype

::

clean(STRING URI)

Return value

STRING

Description

Returns The given URI with its query-string removed if empty

Example

::

set req.url = querystring.clean(req.url);

remove

Prototype

::

remove(STRING URI)

Return value

STRING

Description

Returns The given URI with its query-string removed

Example

::

set req.url = querystring.remove(req.url);

sort

Prototype

::

sort(STRING URI)

Return value

STRING

Description

Returns The given URI with its query-string sorted

Example

::

set req.url = querystring.sort(req.url);

EXAMPLE

In your VCL you could then use this vmod along the following lines:

import querystring;

sub vcl_hash {
        # sort the URL before the request hashing
        set req.url = querystring.sort(req.url);
}

COPYRIGHT

This document is licensed under the same license as the libvmod-querystring project. See LICENSE for details.

• Copyright (c) 2012 Dridi Boukelmoune

SEE ALSO

querysort(3)