Installing ESI for Drupal 7

Did it refresh after 4 minutes? My guess is that your Page Cache for auth users is trumping your block ESI.

Edit: I meant anonymous users, not authenticated. Varnish is caching the entire page html for 4 minutes, and your block probably isn't actually getting cached through ESI at all. Not sure if you can have varnish page cache + ESI through varnish on the same page without some sort of conflict.

Per #1.

Ive tried adding the default vcl code and i can never get it to start. I even tried added the ; as the compiler suggest but that does not work. Varnish starts without issue without the esi code.

Here is the error:

Message from VCC-compiler:
Expected ';' got 'esi'
(program line 174), at
('input' Line 259 Pos 16)
esi;
---------------###-
Running VCC-compiler failed, exit 1
VCL compilation failed

Here this the full section pasted from the text file example

sub vcl_recv {
call esi_block__recv;
}

sub vcl_hash {
call esi_block__hash;
}

sub vcl_fetch {
# don't ESI anything with a 3/4 letter extension
# (e.g. don't try to ESI images, css, etc).
if (! req.url ~ "\..{3,4}$") {
set beresp.do_esi = true
esi; #<----LINE 259
}

call esi_block__fetch;
}

Same problem here. Did you find any solution?

In response to #3, the answer was found in the varnish website

Varnish Site

This is for Varnish 3:
set beresp.do_esi = true

This is for Varnish 2:
esi; #<----LINE 259