Re: [squid-users] accounting with parent cache

On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Agri wrote:

> Theoretically, there may be two methods (may be more)
> 1: http header in parent cache reply

If the parent supplies such header then Squid can use it. For a start with
the custom log formats you can have it logged.

> 2: (more complex) configuring to fetch only for stored objects
> from the parent, but in this case parent cache should listen
> for a http session of my cache (this is not transparent caching).

This is a typical sibling relation in Squid terms. Requires the parent to
support some peering protocol (preferably ICP) allowing Squid to query if
the object is in the cache before forwarding the HTTP request.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Thu Apr 08 2004 - 18:10:38 MDT