ESI Varnish Apache - Documentation: mod_deflate must be turned off

By default, Varnish will only process ESIs on XML-valid documents, which is why it fails for gzipped docs. This can be overridden with a startup config: setting esi_syntax=0x3

It doesn't address the problem though: Varnish cannot read gzipped/compressed pages.
I'll add it to the docs :-)

please please add it to the docs :)
nasty thing

hmm how/where to apply this esi_syntax parameter?
would be thankful for some help. hard to find it..

Moving this to 2.x

To answer this very old question,
you can add the config to your varnish daemon opts, something like

DAEMON_OPTS="-a :6081 \
             -T localhost:6082 \
             -f /etc/varnish/default.vcl \
             -S /etc/varnish/secret \
             -p esi_syntax=0x1 \
             -s malloc,1G

Is #6 still applicable after Varnish 3.0 changes ESI syntax, supports GZIP #504?

• https://www.varnish-cache.org/docs/3.0/tutorial/advanced_topics.html#edg...
• https://www.varnish-cache.org/docs/3.0/phk/gzip.html

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