first stab at sending PURGE requests to upstream varnish for request pages. Next step: making it asynchronous, e.g. with a queue of things to purge via a cron job.

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+require 'open-uri'
+
+def purge(url)
+    config = MySociety::Config.load_default()
+    varnish_url = config['VARNISH_URL']
+    url = "#{varnish_url}#{url}"
+    result = open(url).read
+    if result != "OK"
+        raise
+    end
+end