diff --git a/cookbook/cache/varnish.rst b/cookbook/cache/varnish.rst
index 48eb43c2592..da06add99f1 100644
--- a/cookbook/cache/varnish.rst
+++ b/cookbook/cache/varnish.rst
@@ -57,6 +57,14 @@ Symfony2 adds automatically:
             // For Varnish < 3.0
             // esi;
         }
+        /* By default Varnish ignores Cache-Control: nocache 
+        (https://www.varnish-cache.org/docs/3.0/tutorial/increasing_your_hitrate.html#cache-control),
+        so in order avoid caching it has to be done explicitly */
+        if (beresp.http.Pragma ~ "no-cache" ||
+             beresp.http.Cache-Control ~ "no-cache" ||
+             beresp.http.Cache-Control ~ "private") {
+            return (hit_for_pass);
+        }
     }
 
 .. caution::