[squid-users] Re: Akamai-like CDN using squid and a DNS trick

Neil Harkins wrote:
> If not, perhaps I'll write a tool to tail the log for the hottest objects,
> look at the headers on disk, and issue PURGE requests. Yuck.
>

I found that a forced reload (i.e., a request with Pragma: no-cache,
usually triggered by Shift-Reload in the browser) by a user helps
performance, because

    * stale resources in the cache are replaced by fresh ones,

    * uncompressed resources in the cache are replaced by compressed
      ones if the browser supports it.

So you can refresh the cache as a user by issuing forced reload requests.

Regards,

Oliver Schoett
Received on Thu Sep 06 2007 - 02:07:03 MDT