RE: Forced caching of cgi-gifs

At 11.41 09/02/00 +0000, Dave J Woolley wrote:
>> From: Alessio Sangalli [SMTP:manoweb@iname.com]
>>
>> http://www.centrohl.it/w3/gif? - DIRECT/www.centrohl.it image/GIF
>>
> This URL is fundamentally uncacheable as the server
> response contains none of Last-Modifed-Date,
> Expires, Cache-Controle, or Etag (not sure if
> squid can use Etag).

They're stupid...

> The content provider needs
> educating, if indeed the image is the same for every
> request. (A better approach would be a redirect to
> a static image in that case.)

Sure, I really think that.

There's no way to FORCE squid to cache the image?

Modifying the sources...???

Thanks
Alessio Sangalli
Received on Wed Feb 09 2000 - 05:40:08 MST