Re: dropping headers in parse mode

On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 15:06, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:

> > With a quick and dirty hack, I was able to make squid drop
> > the header and it subsequently was able to cache the request.
>
> Are you sure this is what you want?

Yes. This is what we *need* to do.

> This is obviously not acceptable in the Squid code, not even for
> accelerator use.. Cache-Control is a very important aspect of
> HTTP/1.1, and should not be blindly ignored.

If developers of backend apps refuse to not insert these headers they
must be blindly ignored. This is an example of a specialized use, but
it may be nice to be able to override theses headers....

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Brian Akins <bakins@web.turner.com>
CNN Internet Technologies