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vmod_boltsort

Varnish boltsort Module

Author: Naren Venkataraman
Date: 2012-09-01
Version: 1.0
Manual section:3

SYNOPSIS

At Vimeo we use Varnish Cache to cache our player traffic. It has worked out great for us.

Varnish at this point has no built in module to sort querystrings. Say I have two of these:

  • /video/48088296?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0&color=51a516
  • /video/48088296?byline=0&color=51a516&portrait=0&title=0

Boltsort sorts the querystring and ensures that Varnish treats the above one and the same.

DESCRIPTION

The boltsort Varnish vmod sorts querystring.

  • Insertion sort on tokenized querystring params makes it twice as fast as current qsort implementations
  • Custom param compare instead of storing param lengths for each querystring param means lesser stack usage

FUNCTIONS

sort

Prototype
sort(STRING S)
Return value
STRING
Description
Returns url with querystring sorted
Example
set req.url = boltsort.sort(req.url);

INSTALLATION

Same as libvmod-example installation instructions

Usage:

yum install python-docutils or apt-get install python-docutils
./autogen.sh
./configure VARNISHSRC=DIR [VMODDIR=DIR]

VARNISHSRC is the directory of the Varnish source tree for which to compile your vmod. Both the VARNISHSRC and VARNISHSRC/include will be added to the include search paths for your module.

Optionally you can also set the vmod install directory by adding VMODDIR=DIR (defaults to the pkg-config discovered directory from your Varnish installation).

Make targets:

  • make - builds the vmod
  • make install - installs your vmod in VMODDIR
  • make check - runs the unit tests in src/tests/*.vtc

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

import boltsort;

sub vcl_hash {
        # sort the querysting and use the sorted one for hashing
        set req.url = boltsort.sort(req.url);
}

COPYRIGHT

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

  • Copyright (c) 2012 Vimeo