Re: [squid-users] Squid3 / ICAP question

From: Ralf Hildebrandt <Ralf.Hildebrandt_at_charite.de>
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:48:49 +0200

* Niall O'Cuilinn <nocuilinn_at_amdocs.com>:

> I think this is because Squid has received at least one bad response
> from your ICAP server while it was down. As a result it has decided not
> to talk to your ICAP server for a period of time

OK, could be.
 
> If you want Squid to ignore outages on your ICAP server and always
> attempt a request you can set
>
> icap_service_failure_limit -1

Ah OK, very nice
 
> Setting this to -1 tells Squid to always connect to ICAP, setting a
> positive number indicates the number of failures allowed before Squid
> stops communicating with Squid. The period of time that Squid stops
> talking to ICAP is controlled by 'icap_service_revival_delay', it is a
> minimum of 30 seconds I think.

Way too long for my purposes.
I tried you suggestion and it works like a charm! 

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