Re: Squid not Caching some Objects

From: Mark Treacy <mark@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 1996 01:02:34 +1000

>> I try to access www.realaudio.com or www.timecast.com through the Squid Proxy Cache.
...
> (ed) staff1:~$ telnet www.realaudio.com 80
..
> Date: Wednesday, 04-Sep-96 14:07:52 GMT
> Expires: Wed, 04 Sep 1996 07:09:32 -0800

> (ed) staff1:~$ date
> Wed Sep 4 09:07:57 CDT 1996
>
> It appears as though realaudio wants you to cache (at least their
> main homepage) only 1 hour (CDT is -0500 GMT).

The routine in squid that parses HTTP date fields, parse_rfc850() doesn't
support timezone specifications. i.e. the Expires field above is interpreted
as GMT time, so squid thinks the object has already expired.

 - Mark.
Received on Wed Sep 04 1996 - 08:04:46 MDT

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