Re: [squid-users] squid does not cache

On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Oliver Joa wrote:

> Thank you, i will try, but maybe i found the problem already: Is it true that
> Url which are protected by login/password (Authentication-Type: Basic) are
> not cachable?

Correct, as these are private to the user and the server needs to be
contacted to verify the authentication.

> If it is true, how can it be cached?

You can have the server send "Cache-Control: public" to allow shared
caches to cache the object. This tells caches that even thou the request
contained authentication credentials the resulting reply is public and is
not restricted by authentication.

   RFC 2616 14.8 Authorization, paragraph 3. Only the third alternative is
implemented by Squid.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Tue Apr 19 2005 - 02:03:01 MDT