Re: www.microsoft.com causing looping?

>>>>> "AR" == Adam Rigby <a.rigby@qut.edu.au> writes:

AR> This appears to happen on our squid as well. I've tried the PURGE, it works
AR> fine the first time. If it is coming from a cache then a looping situation
AR> occurs.
AR> We have used "fake_user_agent Mozilla/3.0", I don't know whether this would
AR> make a difference. I would like to know if someone doesn't use this and
AR> gets the same problem.

AR> The only immediate solution I can see is a cache_stoplist on microsoft.com
AR> so that it is accessed DIRECTly. Anybody have a thought or two on a solution.

AR> ~Regards
AR> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
AR> Adam Rigby Ph: 3864 1702
AR> Network Programmer Fax: 3864 5272
AR> Internetworking Software Services
AR> Computing Services e-mail:a.rigby@qut.edu.au
AR> Queensland University of Technology
AR> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

No fake_useragent here and looping (squid 1.1.17). Remark: cache_stoplist will
not make the fetches be done directly, it only will stop caching.

Using these settings in squid.conf:

# do not fetch these from parents
hierarchy_stoplist default.asp ie40.asp

# Do not cache these:
cache_stoplist_pattern/i default\.asp$
cache_stoplist_pattern/i ie40\.asp$

and removing (see the FAQ how to remove objects from the cache)

http://www.microsoft.com/default.asp
http://www.microsoft.com/ie40.asp

from the cache it seems to work. Thanks to Microsoft for this exciting
morning. May be I should send them a bill (no, not a bill gates ! :-) )

Greetings,
        Peter Eisenhauer
Received on Tue Oct 21 1997 - 01:55:40 MDT