TSHttpTxnIsInternal

Test whether a request is internally-generated.

Synopsis

#include <ts/ts.h>

int TSHttpTxnIsInternal(TSHttpTxn txnp)
int TSHttpSsnIsInternal(TSHttpSsn ssnp)

Description

TSHttpTxnIsInternal() tests whether a HTTP transaction was originated within Traffic Server.

TSHttpSsnIsInternal() tests whether a HTTP session was originated within Traffic Server.

Return Values

Both these APIs return a int, indicating whether the request was internal (1) or not (0).

Examples

The ESI plugin uses TSHttpTxnIsInternal() to ignore requests that is had generated while fetching portions of an ESI document:

checkForCacheHeader(const char *name, int name_len, const char *value, int value_len, bool &cacheable)
{
  cacheable = true;
  if (Utils::areEqual(name, name_len, TS_MIME_FIELD_EXPIRES, TS_MIME_LEN_EXPIRES)) {

See also

TSAPI(3ts)