Re: [squid-users] Squid is caching files that have been updated

From: Jacob Friis Saxberg <support.webcom@dont-contact.us>
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 11:08:40 +0200

So if I set:
refresh_pattern ^http: 0 0% 0
Squid will ask the webserver everytime, and only use the cache, if the
file is not modified?

Thanks,
Jacob

On 4/24/06, Henrik Nordstrom <henrik@henriknordstrom.net> wrote:
> lör 2006-04-22 klockan 21:57 +0200 skrev Jacob Friis Saxberg:
> > Here's my result:
> > http://www.ircache.net/cgi-bin/cacheability.py?query=http%3A%2F%2Fdfa.dk%2Flib%2Fmenu_site.xslt
> >
> > How can I make sure that Squid doesn't use TTL for HTTP?
>
> What you want it to do then?
>
> HTTP does not announce when an object changes. Instead it relies on
>
> a) The web server to provide an indication when the object is expected
> to change, done via the Expires and/or Cache-Control: max-age HTTP
> headers.
>
> b) If the web server doesn't give any freshness/expiry indication caches
> guesses based on the modification age of the object.
>
>
> Squid's guesses ('b') is tuned by the refresh_pattern directive in
> squid.conf.
>
> Regards
> Henrik
>
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