# actions

The most common actions to return are these:

pass
  When you return pass the request and subsequent response will be passed to and from the backend server. It won’t be cached. pass can be returned from vcl_recv.
hash
  When you return hash from vcl_recv you tell Varnish to deliver content from cache even if the request otherwise indicates that the request should be passed.

pipe

deliver
  Deliver the object to the client. Usually returned from vcl_backend_response.
restart
  Restart processing of the request. You can restart the processing of the whole transaction. Changes to the req object are retained, except for req.backend_hint, which gets reset to the default backend.
retry
  Retry the request against the backend. This can be returned from vcl_backend_response or vcl_backend_error if you don’t like the response that the backend delivered.