---
title: bereq.url
summary: null
url: >-
  https://www.fastly.com/documentation/reference/vcl/variables/backend-request/bereq-url
---

**Type:** STRING  
**Access:** can be read and set, but not unset

**Available in:** pass, miss, fetch

URL sent to the backend. Does not include the host and scheme, meaning in 
`http://www.example.com/index.html`, `bereq.url` would contain `/index.html`.