Re: [squid-users] reverse proxy caching session id

> Hi Amos,
>
> that's going to be a problem, we can't really change our web application.
> on top of that, we uses url rewrite for the our site.
> the url look like this
> www.sitedomain.com/controller/session_id/other_stuff/..

You can just use the ? bypass IFAIK and it will work fine as a
reverse-proxy. Just don't expect a cache-high hit ratio as well.

>
> is there any work around that we can do with squid's conf file?
> changing the session handling is really not a option for us.
>
> Thanks again
> kevin
>
>
> Amos Jeffries wrote:
>> Hi all, I'm setting up a reverse proxy with squid to hide my web server.
>> Our site rely largely on session, and we pass our session id through the
>> url. I'm worry that squid might cached the url and new users will end up
>> accessing the site with a old session id.
>>
>> Is this a problem that i should worry about?
>>
>>
>
> Yes. For this case you NEED the default cache deny for queries with ?
> With squid its better to pass it as a cookie (which apparently gets
> stripped from any cached objects).
>
> Amos
>
Received on Thu Aug 16 2007 - 15:15:53 MDT