Re: Does caching work properly for ftp requests?

From: Kolics Bertold, University of Veszprem <bertold@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 11:05:23 +0100 (MET)

Hi,
> My question is this: ftp://etc URL's are cached by squid. This is fine, but
> since there are no expirations for ftp-ed objects, I expect squid to look
> if the original has changed every time I request the object.
Are you sure you want to do that?

> This does not
> happen, not even for directories. Or, otherwise stated: once an ftp-object
> is cached it seems never to be updated.
1. You can set the refresh_patterns appropriately.
2. At directory listings users can see (at the bottom of the page) when
the requested page was downloaded by squid.

Yours,
Bertold

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 University of Veszprem, Hungary W3: http://tohotom.vein.hu/~bertold/
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Received on Wed Mar 26 1997 - 02:02:03 MST

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