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Regular expression cheat sheet for Varnish | |
Varnish regular expressions are NOT case sensitive. Varnish uses POSIX | |
regular expressions, for a complete guide, see: "man 7 regex" | |
Basic matching: | |
req.url ~ "searchterm" | |
True if req.url contains "searchterm" anywhere. | |
req.url == "searchterm" | |
True if req.url is EXACTLY searchterm | |
Matching at the beginning or end of a string | |
req.http.host ~ "^www." | |
True if req.http.host starts with "www" followed by any single | |
character. | |
req.http.host ~ "^www\." | |
True if req.http.host starts with "www.". Notice that . was | |
escaped. | |
req.url ~ "\.jpg$" | |
True if req.url ends with ".jpg" | |
Multiple matches | |
req.url ~ "\.(jpg|jpeg|css|js)$" | |
True if req.url ends with either "jpg", "jpeg", "css" or "js". | |
Matching with wildcards | |
req.url ~ "jp.g$" | |
True if req.url ends with "jpeg", "jpag", "jp$g" and so on, but NOT | |
true if it ends with "jpg". | |
req.url ~ "jp.*g$" | |
True if req.url ends with "jpg", "jpeg", "jpeeeeeeeg", | |
"jpasfasf@@!!g" and so forth (jp followed by 0 or more random | |
characters ending with the letter 'g'). | |
Conditional matches | |
req.url ~ "\.phg(\?.*)?$" | |
True if req.url ends with ".php" ".php?foo=bar" or ".php?", but not | |
".phpa". Meaning: Either it ends with just ".php" or ".php" | |
followed by a question mark any any number of characters. | |
req.url ~ "\.[abc]foo$" | |
True if req.url ends with either ".afoo" ".bfoo" or ".cfoo". | |
req.url ~ "\.[a-c]foo$" | |
Same as above. | |
Replacing content | |
set req.http.host = regsub(req.http.host, "^www\.",""); | |
Replaces a leading "www." in the Host-header with a blank, if | |
present. | |
set req.http.x-dummy = regsub(req.http.host, "^www.","leading-3w."); | |
Sets the x-dummy header to contain the host-header, but replaces | |
a leading "www." with "leading-3w" example: | |
Host: www.example.com => | |
Host: www.example.com | |
X-Dummy: leading-3w.example.com | |
Host: example.com => | |
Host: example.com | |
X-Dummy: example.com |
Varnish regular expressions are NOT case sensitive
https://www.varnish-cache.org/docs/3.0/reference/vcl.html
Regular Expressions
Varnish uses PCRE - Perl-compatible regular expressions. For a complete description of PCRE please see the pcre(3) man page.
To send flags to the PCRE engine, such as to turn on case insensitivity add the flag within parens following a question mark, like this:
If host is NOT example dot com..
if (req.http.host !~ "(?i)example.com$") {
...
}
This is out of date. It should be removed.
Source: https://kly.no/varnish/regex.txt
Stating:
WARNING WARNING WARNING
This document was written years ago, for Varnish version 2.0.
Varnish has SWITCHED regex engine from posix regex to pcre, and is now case
sensitve. There are also numerous other changes. The basic principles still
hold true, but you are probably better off using official documentation
instead of something I wrote during a lunch break for participants of a
Varnish training course back in 2011.
WARNING WARNING WARNING
Varnish regular expressions are case sensitive.