Re: squid cache retrieval in place of errors

>>>>> "DL" == David Luyer <luyer@ucs.uwa.edu.au> writes:

    DL> cannot be given such a warning, maybe the error page should
    DL> have a link to something like

    DL> http://your.cache.host:3128/cached/old/http/some.other.host/path/to/file.html
    DL>

    DL> titled, say, "An old cached copy is avaliable".

Which may or may not work for inlined images. An altogether better
solution (although not available yet) is to wait for HTTP/1.1 which
allows a cache to say "Hey this is maybe not current but it is the
newest I could get" via a HTTP header.

This of course requires an HTTP/1.1 compliant browser which inerprets
this kind of header and has its own way of alerting the user.

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