Re: [squid-users] Vary: * handling in Squid

howard chen wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Just want to know how squid will handle if my back end server send
> Vary: * with a very long expire to the client thru a reverse proxy
> (squid of coz). And this content maybe gzip compressed.
>
> 1. Will squid cache this response?
> 2. Should squid always need to conditional request my backend for
> every request (if-modified-since)
>
> Thanks.

(1) Is that "Vary: *" exact header, or Vary: with some header names?

(2) do the pages have "Cache-Control: must-revalidate" ?
  or does squid.conf have a short refresh_pattern age with
override-expires that matches you pages.

Amos

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