Re: [squid-users] Is it possible that the proxy server acts as web server when the real web server is down temporally

higeon wrote:
> Hello,
> I built a squid proxy server to accelerate my web server because the
> web server has a very poor slow network(9600bps).
> Is it possible that the proxy server still continually responses to
> the web requests from the cache even if the real web server is down or
> unavailable temporally ?
> Thank you!

Yes possible.

If any of several things are true:
  1) objects requested are cached AND not expired
or
  2) web server sets Cache-Control: stale-if-error

You will also want collapsed forwarding.

These last two are available in Squid-2.7.
But not ported to Squid-3.x yet.

Amos

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