RE: [squid-users] http request not caching Please Help..!!!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Henrik Nordstrom [mailto:hno@marasystems.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 1:14 PM
> To: SRILAKSHMANAN,LAKSHMAN (HP-Australia,ex3)
> Cc: squid-users@squid-cache.org
> Subject: Re: [squid-users] http request not caching Please Help..!!!
>
>
> Squid cannot cache content requiring authentication. This is
> a very strict requirement in the HTTP specification to avoid
> private content to be inadvertly caches and accessed by
> unauthorized users.

Just a note: IF and ONLY IF the origin server decides to allow it, such
content can be cached (and only served out to the same user). Currently
squid simply never caches, which could be changed to follow rfc2616, as
we now have Vary support, which is a requirement for doing this.

Rob
Received on Tue Mar 26 2002 - 01:13:15 MST