Re: Re: [squid-users] Squid vs caching products like memcached

Words by lightbulb432 [Wed, May 16, 2007 at 10:39:29AM -0700]:
>
> Great answer, thanks!
>
> How does Squid's page caching ability work in terms of caching pages (as
> though they are static) but that were generated dynamically?
>
> For example, Amazon.com's homepage is dynamic but not generated dynamically
> on each request for that page; rather, I assume they set it to be cached
> anytime a request for that page comes in, with some sort of expiration
> policy (e.g. only dynamically generate the homepage once an hour, then serve
> that cached static page for the rest of that hour).
>
> I really hope Squid makes such a configuration possible and easy.
>

Yes. That's the basics :)

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