[Shish2k]

Now that you mention it, I forget why that specific snippet is in my config... it is part of a block of similar-but-more-useful things (specifically, having multiple caches serving the same static content from a variety of different domain names)

[sandGorgon]

so, what's the answer - this is why Varnish is so confusing. I have my non-www to www redirects working perfectly on nginx.

should I do anything special in varnish, or should I trust it to cache the nginx redirect headers by itself ?

[Shish2k]

The answer is have nginx do the redirect, varnish will handle it correctly