Re: [squid-users] cache takes long before it updates a site!

On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 15:38, louie miranda wrote:
> hello im having problems on my squid server, here's the scenario.
> I have a website outside of my ip/block i update it once' a while
> like every minute. Now when i try to reload the page that i have
> update squid does not update it i mean it still cache the old one.
>
> when i tried to access it directly i can see the update that i had,
> but when i get back again on it still the old one. I think it updates
> but it takes so long!
>
> I tried updating and reading the faq and the docs but i really
> can't see the correct options on the config, is there anyone here
> that has similar problems as i am having on my cache/squid?
>
> is there a solution that i can adjust? on my configs?

You need to issue appropriate metadata from your web server.
Squid only knows what the webserver tells it about the freshness and
lifetime of the cached obejcts.

Cheers,
Rob

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