Re: [squid-users] Can Squid hide all 404s from clients?

Hello, Leonardo.

Thanks for your prompt reply!

On 8/21/08 3:02 PM, "Leonardo Rodrigues Magalhães"
<leolistas_at_solutti.com.br> wrote:
> are you sure you wanna do this kind of configuration ???
Yes. I am aware that my request is unusual, as this is to be a
special-purpose installation of squid.

> have you
> ever imagined that you can be feeding your users with really
> invalid/very outdated pages ???
Of course -- it is implicit in my request. The "users" of this particular
squid instance will not be humans with desktop browsers, but other software
systems that need a layer of "availability fault-tolerance" between
themselves and the URL resources they depend on.

> If the site admin took the files off off
> the webserver, maybe there's some reason for that ....
The servers this Squid server will pull URLs from are many and diverse, and
maintained by admins with widely different competency levels and uptime
expectations.

> i dont know if this can be done,
Bummer. After all that explanation of why I shouldn't, I thought for sure
you were going to say "But if you REALLY want to...". ;)

So, now that I have explained my need, the question reamins unanswered:
Is it possible to configure Squid so that it always serves the "latest
available" version of any given URL, even if the URL is no longer available
at the original source?

- benton

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