Redirecting based on http verb and URL

[Davies Matt J A (LCSS)]

Thanks Martin

Jobs a good un :-)

Matt
On 22 Jul 2010, at 07:47, Martin Boer wrote:

> I'd use ~ instead of == in the first if statement. If doubt 'equal' will fit a regular expression where 'looks something like' will.
> 
> And perhaps  'website' instead of 'webiste', but that may have come from you disguising the url.
> 
> Hope either one of them helps. :)
> Martin
> 
> 
> On 07/21/2010 02:13 PM, Davies Matt J A (LCSS) wrote:
>> Hello everyone
>> 
>> I'm just checking I'm going down the right path here.
>> 
>> I've read the example redirect section on the docs here, http://varnish-cache.org/wiki/VCLExampleRedirectInVCL
>> 
>> In my case we've just moved web sites, and some crazy dudes are spamming our site, trying to send a POST form to an one page that may have one time allowed it.
>> 
>> My Rails app is picking up these attempts at spam and throwing them out, but I want to handle them, and other normal people who simply click on the old link somewhere, with varnish prior to that.
>> 
>> Here's my addition to the vcl_recv
>> 
>> if (req.http.host == "^(www.)?webiste/blogs/oldpage$") {
>>       error 750 "Moved Temporarily";
>>         if (req.request == "POST"){
>>           error 751 "Please go away"
>>       }
>>     }
>> 
>> and vcl_error
>> 
>> sub vcl_error {
>>     if (obj.status == 750) {
>>         set obj.http.Location = "http://newblogs";
>> 	      set obj.status = 302;
>>         deliver;
>>     }
>>     if (obj.status == 751) {
>>       set obj.status = 500;
>>       deliver;
>>     }
>> }
>> 
>> Can anyone see any glaringly obvious stupid bits in there?
>> 
>> Thanks again.
>> 
>> 
>> 
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