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+Vmod_dict README
+Copyright (C) 2017 Sergey Poznyakoff
+See the end of file for copying conditions.
+
+* Introduction
+
+This file contains brief information about configuring, testing
+and using vmod_dict. It is *not* intended as a replacement
+for the documentation, and is provided as a brief reference only.
+For accessing complete documentation, please see the section
+'Documentation' below.
+
+* Overview
+
+This module adds to Varnish Cache the ability to look up values in
+a textual dictionary. A dictionary is a disk file containing on
+each line a keyword-value pair, separated by arbitrary amount of
+whitespace. Leading and trailing whitespace is ignored. Empty lines
+and comments (beginning with '#' as the first non-whitespace
+character) are allowed.
+
+The dictionary is loaded into a hash table using the dict.load
+function. Normally it is done in vcl_init:
+
+ import dict;
+
+ sub vcl_init {
+ dict.load("/var/lib/cache/input.dict", false, 0);
+ }
+
+The second argument (a boolean) specifies whether the keyword matching
+is case-insensitive (true) or case-sensitive (false). The 3rd argument
+gives the maximum allowed number of collisions in the loaded hash
+table. The module will adjust the load factor to meet this number.
+
+Once loaded, the value corresponding to a given key can be retrieved
+as follows:
+
+ set req.http.X-Value = dict.lookup("key");
+
+* Installation
+
+In order to compile the package you need to have installed
+varnishd and varnishapi package.
+
+Supposing that condition is met, run:
+
+ ./configure
+
+It should be able to automatically find the necessary components. In case
+it doesn't, tweak the configuration variables as necessary. The most
+important one is PKG_CONFIG_PATH, which contains a path (in the UNIX sense)
+where the .pc files are located. It should contain a directory where the
+'varnishapi.pc' file lives. Example usage:
+
+ ./configure PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/varnish/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH
+
+Please read the file INSTALL for a detailed discussion of available variables
+and command line options.
+
+Once configured, do
+
+ make
+
+This will build the module. After this step you can optionally run
+'make test' to test the package.
+
+Finally, run the following command as root:
+
+ make install
+
+* Documentation
+
+The manual page vmod_dict(3) will be available after a successful
+install. To read it without actually installing the module, run
+`man src/vmod_dict.3'.
+
+An online copy of the documentation is available from
+http://ps.gnu.org.ua/software/vmod-dict.
+
+* Bug reporting
+
+Send bug reports and suggestions to <gray@gnu.org>
+
+
+Local Variables:
+mode: outline
+paragraph-separate: "[ ]*$"
+version-control: never
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