Re: Caching dynamic pages (CGI) for one service/server

Knut A. Syed:
>
> I would like to cache pages for one specific service, (actually one
> server,) even if they contain the strings "cgi-bin" and "?".
>
> The URLs looks like this: http://www.foo.bar/cgi-bin/article?id=1234
> These pages rarely changes, but if someone does a reload/refresh I
> would like the cached copy to be updated.
>
> How do i force Squid to cache these pages? I have tried to use a
> refresh_pattern without success.
>
> The server does not send a "Last-Modified" for these pages, only "Age: 0".

Maybe you forgot removing cgi-bin and \? from hierarchy_stoplist and had
no_cache acl set up for such a regexp (e.g. is in squid.conf)?

Try placing such a pattern in the beginning of your refresh patterns list:

refresh_pattern /cgi-bin/ 60 50% 120

M.

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