Re: HTTP Reply Headers in Cache Entres - Are they "unmodified"?

On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, CNL Squid Users List wrote:

> Are these headers stored in the cache entries
> the "verbatim" headers received from the origin
> server or does squid store only the "useful"
> portions of the header (for optimisation reasons ...)?

A proxy must forward most of the headers to the client with every reply.
Thus, Squid has to store most of the headers. A notable exception is a
Connection and other hop-by-hop headers. Check the source code to see if
we remove them when forwarding a reply or when storing a reply. Squid
may also append its own headers, but I think this is done during the
forwarding phase.

In short, use the source.

Alex.
Received on Tue Jul 27 1999 - 10:30:16 MDT