The Vary functionality is based on a secondary key that needs to be
calculated for every request to which a server answers with a Vary
header. The Vary header, which can only be found in server responses,
determines which headers of the request need to be taken into account in
the secondary key. Since we do not want to have to store all the headers
of the request until we have the response, we will pre-calculate as many
sub-hashes as there are headers that we want to manage in a Vary
context. We will only focus on a subset of headers which are likely to
be mentioned in a Vary response (accept-encoding and referer for now).
Every managed header will have its own normalization function which is
in charge of transforming the header value into a core representation,
more robust to insignificant changes that could exist between multiple
clients. For instance, two accept-encoding values mentioning the same
encodings but in different orders should give the same hash.
This patch adds a function that parses a Vary header value and checks if
all the values belong to our supported subset. It also adds the
normalization functions for our two headers, as well as utility
functions that can prebuild a secondary key for a given request and
transform it into an actual secondary key after the vary signature is
determined from the response.
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