Re: OnLine banks, time sensitive webpages (etc...)

From: tom minchin <tom@dont-contact.us>
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 10:33:29 +1100

On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 05:20:34PM -0500, Chuck Pitre wrote:
> Just wondering, for online banking, I'm assuming it's fairly easy to
> inform squid not to cache the SSL ports?
> What I"m most worried about is time sensitive webpages (ie stock quotes,
> lotto numbers etc...) does anyone run into situations where customers
> called an complained because of inaccurate webpages? If so, how have you
> dealt with it?
>

HTTPS isn't cacheable, it's only proxied by Squid. So you won't have a problem
there.

Typically I find it's the browser, and then the content provider, at fault
before Squid. When I come across such a provider, I usually direct them to
the Squid FAQ for help.

tom@interact.net.au
Received on Mon Jan 18 1999 - 16:09:52 MST

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