Re: Burning Bandwidth

From: Duane Wessels <wessels>
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 96 12:55:25 -0700

>> This is such a shameful waste. Right now I'm poring over my Squid
>> store.log to see what sites refuse to be cached - they include
>> home.netscape.com, loaded up by many newly-installed Navigator
>> installations; as well as lots of other popular pages. Right now
>> I'm cooking up some perl to give me stats on how much bytes are
>> wasted by this counterproductive scheme.
>
>It's even more ironic that Netscape does it, considering that they market
>their own caching proxy server.

Be careful, you may be seeing a TTL calculation bug in Squid for pages
which do not include a Last-Modified time. This bug is present in
versions 1.0.1 through 1.0.3.

Duane W.
Received on Thu Jul 25 1996 - 12:55:26 MDT

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