Re: Commercal Providers

Anthony Baxter wrote:

> >>> Tripp Donnelly wrote
> > Is squid sutible for commercal providers?
>
> I hope so - we're running it in very serious production.
>
> > Are there any issues with web certain web sites that don't like to be
> > cached?
>
> Certain sites have, in the past, done things like deliberately setting the
> expiry time of all files to 'now'. Generally putting a forced TTL in the
> squid config, and mailing the site in question to tell them that this is
> what has been done, will get their attention. :)
> (most of the sites eventually get a clue and fix their setup).

Some examples are anything ending in .asp (active server pages, courtesy of
microsoft). You get an expires header (sometimes set to 'now', sometimes
backdated), a 'pragma: no-cache', a 'cache-control: no-store' and something
else that prevents it..damned if I can remember what. Usually you'll get two
or three of the above list (sometimes several times in a single
response-header) depending on the exact build you encounter...There seem to be
at least a dozen.

*sigh* At least we can cache the images. Small mercies and all that..

D

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