Re: Introducing myself

Hi!

Take a look at stale-while-revalidate (cache_peer option in 2.7); it
may do what you need.

Cheers,

On 21/04/2009, at 2:10 PM, Alistair Reay wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I'd like to introduce myself to the dev team and start helping out.
>
> My name is Alistair Reay and I'm a system engineer at a large New
> Zealand broadcaster that uses Squid and other open-source software
> extensively. Using squid we've built the nations largest and cheapest
> commercial CDN for our VOD offering so I've got a vested interest in
> helping Squid kick more ass. Although I'm not a professional
> developer,
> I have a lot of interest in contributing code to this project and I've
> created a production-ready load balancer project in SourceForge called
> Octopus http://sourceforge.net/projects/octopuslb/ that works really
> well behind Squid.
>
> Anyway, the first thing I'd like to do is investigate how
> refresh_stale_hit works and try to improve it. I searched to squid-
> users
> mail list and found this thread of conversation which is what I'd like
> to implement in Squid2.7. If you'll have me, I'll subscribe to this
> mailing list and make a new topic about this feature request then
> start
> work.
>
> http://www.squid-cache.org/mail-archive/squid-users/200609/0162.html
> User's query/request (also what I'd like to be able to do)
> http://www.squid-cache.org/mail-archive/squid-users/200609/0167.html
> Henrik's response
>
> Cheers
> Al
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