Commit 59eac47c authored by Geoff Simmons's avatar Geoff Simmons

Document use of fail-status < 100 in a VarnishConfig acl.

parent 95421c91
......@@ -322,6 +322,14 @@ Optional fields for ``acl`` are:
* ``fail-status`` (integer): HTTP status for a synthetic failure
response, default 403 (for "403 Forbidden")
* If ``fail-status`` is < 100, then no failure response is
generated as a result of ACL failure. The purpose is to bring
about other effects, in particular setting a header with
``result-header`` as specified below. See the
[``examples`` folder](/examples/authentication/) for a sample
config in which this is used for "either-or" authorization --
either an IP whitelist match or Basic Auth.
* ``comparand``: specification of the IP value against which the ACL
is matched, as detailed below; default ``client.ip``
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