Make varnish only cache pages when the user is not logged in (Laravel 5)

Question

Laravel sets a cookie even if the user is not logged in. This causes Varnish to send all requests to the server. I met some people ( http://abeak.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/caching-laravel-with-varnish.html ) using Session Monster , which sets the header X-No-Sessionif the user is not authenticated. This is a Laravel 4 package, so I created instead a middleware that sets the title if the user is not out of date.

I can't figure out how to get Larnish to send backend requests only when the header is not set. I would really appreciate any guidance!

EDIT:

This middleware sets the header X-No-Sessionif the user is not logged in:

<?php

namespace App\Http\Middleware;

use Closure;
use Session;

class StripSessionsIfNotAuthenticated
{
    /**
     * Handle an incoming request.
     *
     * @param  \Illuminate\Http\Request  $request
     * @param  \Closure  $next
     * @return mixed
     */
    public function handle($request, Closure $next)
    {
        if(auth()->check()) {
            return $next($request);
        }

        return $next($request)->header('X-No-Session', 'yeah');
    }
}

Then I converted VCL to a related article in VCL V4:

#
# This is an example VCL file for Varnish.
#
# It does not do anything by default, delegating control to the
# builtin VCL. The builtin VCL is called when there is no explicit
# return statement.
#
# See the VCL chapters in the Users Guide at https://www.varnish-cache.org/docs/
# and https://www.varnish-cache.org/trac/wiki/VCLExamples for more examples.

# Marker to tell the VCL compiler that this VCL has been adapted to the
# new 4.0 format.
vcl 4.0;

# Default backend definition. Set this to point to your content server.
backend default {
    .host = "127.0.0.1";
    .port = "8080";
}

sub vcl_recv {
    # Happens before we check if we have this in cache already.
    #
    # Typically you clean up the request here, removing cookies you don't need,
    # rewriting the request, etc.

    if (req.url ~ "^/auth" || req.method == "POST" || req.http.Authorization) {
        return (pass);
    }

    if (req.url ~ "\.(png|gif|jpg|css|js|ico|woff|woff2|svg)$") {
        unset req.http.cookie;

        return (hash); 
    }

    if (req.http.X-No-Session ~ "yeah" && req.method != "POST") {
        unset req.http.cookie;
    }

    return (hash);
}

sub vcl_backend_response {
    # Happens after we have read the response headers from the backend.
    #
    # Here you clean the response headers, removing silly Set-Cookie headers
    # and other mistakes your backend does.

    set beresp.ttl = 1d;

    if (bereq.method == "GET" && bereq.url ~ "\.(png|gif|jpg|css|js|ico|woff|woff2|svg)$") {  
        unset beresp.http.set-cookie;

        set beresp.ttl = 5d;
    }

    return (deliver);
}

sub vcl_deliver {
    # Happens when we have all the pieces we need, and are about to send the
    # response to the client.
    #
    # You can do accounting or modifying the final object here.

    if (obj.hits > 0) {
        set resp.http.X-Cache = "HIT";
    } else {
        set resp.http.X-Cache = "MISS";
    }
}

Answer 1

Try replacing

if (req.http. ~ "laravel_session") {
    return (pass);
}

in your function sub vcl_recvwith

if (req.http.X-No-Session ~ "yeah") {  
    unset req.http.cookie;  
}  

So, if you have a header X-No-Session, you are downloading cookies. Which, in turn, will not be transmitted to the backend based on cookies. At the moment you are saying whether there is a cookie, go to the backend. As you already know, there will always be cookies.

If this also helps, here is my Varnish configuration .

Answer 2

, , X-No-Session -, . vcl_backend_response() :

sub vcl_backend_response {
    set beresp.ttl = 1d;

    if (beresp.http.X-No-Session ~ "yeah" && bereq.method != "POST") {
        unset beresp.http.set-cookie;
    }

    if (bereq.method == "GET" && bereq.url ~ "\.(png|gif|jpg|css|js|ico|woff|woff2|svg)$") {
        unset beresp.http.set-cookie;
        set beresp.ttl = 5d;
    }

    return (deliver);
}

, cookie.

EDIT:,

$response->headers->set('X-No-Session', 'yeah');

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