A simple Google Chrome extension that shows if a page being served up via a Varnish web accelerator is fresh or not.
Varnish Indicator (forked, improved) Extension
This is a fork from https://github.com/deizel/varnish-inspector, so he deserves much of the credit. I've improved this to work with different flavors of Varnish (the original had a dependency on the order of headers). In particular, I've been testing this with Fastly, a CDN that uses Varnish under the hood.
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Source Manifest.json
{"update_url": "https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx", "description": "A simple Google Chrome extension that shows if a page being served up via a Varnish web accelerator is fresh or not.", "background": { "scripts": [ "background.js" ] }, "browser_action": { "default_icon": "img/button_gray.png" }, "icons": { "16": "img/icon_small.png", "48": "img/icon_medium.png", "128": "img/icon_large.png" }, "manifest_version": 2, "name": "Varnish Indicator (forked, improved)", "permissions": [ "webRequest", "webNavigation", "http://*/*", "https://*/*" ], "minimum_chrome_version": "17", "version": "1.0.0"}
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