[squid-users] objects never cached

From: Babar Hameed <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 11:10:38 +0000

HI Henrik,
I just wanted to see what happens. actualy there are sites (specialy
banners) that i am never been able to cache no matter what refresh pattern i
use. try caching the banner on www.cnn.com.

Bandwidth is expensive in this part of the world so cache means cash. :)

Bregds,
Babar

>From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@marasystems.com>
>To: "Babar Hameed" <infoeditor@hotmail.com>, squid-users@squid-cache.org
>Subject: Re: [squid-users] objects no cached
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>See httpCachableReply.
>
>Note that these are not cached for a reason. HTTP specifications
>explicitly FORBIDS shared caches to cache private objects or any
>caches from caching no-store objects for security reasons.
>
> private = data private to a single user only
> no-store = sensitive data that must not be stored on disk
>
>The no-cache directive is a little milder but quite special. Also many
>web application authors are confused on the no-cache directive (often
>due to a earlier HTTP/1.1 specification where the meanings of these
>were slightly different) so Squid takes the simple path and deny
>caching of such objects. If you touch this directive you SHOULD make
>it behave as specified in RFC2616 wrt HTTP header control. (see
>section 14.9.1)
>
>Regards
>Henrik
>
>
>
>On Thursday 12 December 2002 07.19, Babar Hameed wrote:
> > hi,
> > I am looking for a way to cache objects such as:
> >
> > Responses with Cache-Control: Private are NOT cachable.
> > Responses with Cache-Control: No-Cache are NOT cachable.
> > Responses with Cache-Control: No-Store are NOT cachable.
> >
> > I know u have to change the source code to achieve this, does any
> > one know where and what exactly?
> >
> > bregds,
> > Babar
> >
> >
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