Re: [squid-users] force caching ?

On Wednesday 27 February 2002 01:51 am, Rommel, Florian wrote:
> The clients access the webserver more then once a minute but the data
> actually changes only once every 5 minutes. So i want to cache the data
> for a minute on the proxy. thats not a problem since i can set the
> expiration header in the data BUT, i cant set it everywhere and all URLs
> are something like http://gg.gg.gg.com/script.jsp?blah=x&x=blahh . So i
> added these lines in the squid.conf:
>
> but still over 80% are actually pulled from the server all the time and
> not cached...

First, squid, to my knowledge won't cache an item if it expires in under 1
minute. You may need to settle for having the items expire after 2
minutes.

Second, if the web servers are apache, see mod_expires. If not, see if
your server offers something similar.

        -- Brian
Received on Wed Feb 27 2002 - 00:01:58 MST