Re: Introducing Phil Bogle, proposed additions to Squid

On Sun, 25 Sep 2005, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:

> On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Phil Bogle wrote:
>
>> * The x-cache-key directive overrides the actual URL used to fetch
>> the content for purposes of determining cache hits. It is typically used
>> to ignore session query string parameters that would otherwise prevent
>> caching.
>
> How does this allow cache hits on URLs with session query strings?

Now I got it. This is a request header, not a response header.

Big fat alarm lamp on using this feature in a cache hierarchy. Could very
easily be abused for cache pollution purposes if not all involved caches
understands the directive..

Regards
Henrik
Received on Sat Sep 24 2005 - 17:48:56 MDT