Re: [squid-users] Large Files and Reverse proxy

From: Simon Waters <simonw_at_zynet.net>
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 09:00:08 +0100

On Friday 29 August 2008 21:44:48 Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> On fre, 2008-08-29 at 14:08 +0100, Simon Waters wrote:
> > I don't care if Squid does a refresh query for an 8MB object, indeed I'm
> > happy for it to check freshness every time such an object is fetched if
> > needed to comply with HTTP RFCs, I was just concerned that Squid is
> > fetching the whole 8MB file many times a day.
>
> Do the object have a useable cache validator (Last-Modifie / ETag) and
> does the web server respond properly on cache validation requests
> (If-Modified-Since / If-None-Match)?

Yes (including ETags, although I believe it is the default Apache behaviour
for these), and yes. It does sometimes do refresh queries instead of fetches,
just not as often as I'd hope.
Received on Mon Sep 01 2008 - 08:00:20 MDT

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