Re: [squid-users] no_cache allow question.

From: Christian Purnomo <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 08:51:55 +1000

Thanks Henrik,

You have answered all my questions.

Many thanks

Christian.

Subject: Re: [squid-users] no_cache allow question.
Date: Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 09:13:24AM +0200
Quoting Henrik Nordstrom (hno@squid-cache.org):

: On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Christian Purnomo wrote:
:
: > I then try modifying it to be:
: >
: > acl QUERY urlpath_regex cgi-bin \?
: > acl IGNORE_CGI url_regex ^http:\/\/www.mysite.com\/cgi-bin\/
: > no_cache allow IGNORE_CGI
: > no_cache deny QUERY
:
: Correct.
:
: > I have tried turning on 'log_mime_hdrs'. The output in access.log doesn't show anything about cache-control in the headers.
: >
: > 066628527.970 278 192.168.10.29 TCP_MISS/200 7284 GET
: > http://www.mysite.com/cgi-bin/fred.wxh?id=15&user=fred -
: > DIRECT/10.0.2.78 text/html [Accept: */*\r\nAccept-Language:
: > en-au\r\nUser-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT
: > 5.1)\r\nHost: www.mysite.com\r\nProxy-Connection: Keep-Alive\r\n]
: > [HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\nDate: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 05:42:07 GMT\r\nServer:
: > Apache/1.3.1 (Unix)\r\nConnection: close\r\nContent-Type:
: > text/html\r\n\r]
:
: This is because your server/application is not sending any Cache-control
: headers, or any other headers which would make Squid know how long it can
: cache the reply. For all Squid knows (which is probably correct given the
: URL) this content is dynamically generated and is not safe to cache.
:
: Your no_cache ACL rule does not change this fact. It only allows Squid to
: look into the reply to determine if it is safe to cache the content or
: not. However, without your no_cache acl rule the default rule would block
: caching even if the server provided adequate information.
:
: The "Caching Tutorial for Web Authors and Webmasters"
: <url:http://www.mnot.net/cache_docs/> provides a very good reference on
: how to make content cacheable. This is recommended reading for anyone who
: tries to make their content cacheable or not.
:
: Regards
: Henrik
:
Received on Mon Oct 20 2003 - 16:51:57 MDT

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