XDebug Plugin

The XDebug plugin allows HTTP clients to debug the operation of the Traffic Server cache using the default X-Debug header. The plugin is triggered by the presence of the X-Debug or the configured header in the client request. The contents of this header should be the names of the debug headers that are desired in the response. The XDebug plugin will remove the X-Debug header from the client request and inject the desired headers into the client response.

XDebug is a global plugin. It is installed by adding it to the plugin.config file. It currently takes a single, optional configuration option, --header. E.g.

–header=ATS-My-Debug

This overrides the default X-Debug header name.

Debugging Headers

The XDebug plugin is able to generate the following debugging headers:

Via

If the Via header is requested, the XDebug plugin sets the proxy.config.http.insert_response_via_str configuration variable to 3 for the request.

Diags

If the Diags header is requested, the XDebug plugin enables the transaction specific diagnostics for the transaction. This also requires that proxy.config.diags.debug.enabled is set to 1.

log-headers

If the log-headers is requested while proxy.config.diags.debug.tags is set to xdebug.headers and proxy.config.diags.debug.enabled is set to 1, then all client and server, request and response headers are logged. Also, the X-Debug: log-headers header is always added to the upstream request.

X-Cache-Key

The X-Cache-Key header contains the URL that identifies the HTTP object in the Traffic Server cache. This header is particularly useful if a custom cache key is being used.

X-Cache

The X-Cache header contains the results of any cache lookups.

Value	Description
none	No cache lookup was attempted.
miss	The object was not found in the cache.
hit-stale	The object was found in the cache, but it was stale.
hit-fresh	The object was fresh in the cache.
skipped	The cache lookup was skipped.

If a request goes through multiple proxies, each one prepends its X-Cache header content at the beginning of the existing X-Cache header. As a result, the order is reversed from the Via: header.

X-Cache-Generation

The cache generation ID for this transaction, as specified by the proxy.config.http.cache.generation configuration variable.

X-Milestones

The X-Milestones header contains detailed information about how long the transaction took to traverse portions of the HTTP state machine. The timing information is obtained from the TSHttpTxnMilestoneGet() API. Each milestone value is a fractional number of seconds since the beginning of the transaction.

X-Transaction-ID

A unique transaction ID, which identifies this request / transaction. This matches the log field format that is also available, %<cruuid>.

X-Remap

If the URL was remapped for a request, this header gives the to and from field from the line in remap.config that caused the URL to be remapped.