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:

  if (!TSHttpTxnIsInternal(txnp)) {
    Dbg(dbg_ctl_local, "[%s] Skipping external request", __FUNCTION__);
    return false;
  }

See also

TSAPI(3ts)