[squid-users] Using override-expire and max age

I am caching some dynamic data. The data squid receives from the
server has an Expires: header. The data is 1 week from the initial
download.

I don't want to cache the data this long, so I created a rule that
looks like this:

refresh_pattern <URL> 1440 80% 2880 override-expire

I want the data to expire after 2 days. That doesn't seem to be
happening. The data is still fresh until I roll the date past the
date in the Expire header.

The documentation in squid.conf seems to imply that override-expire
allows you cache past the Expire date, not cut it short. Is squid
using the max age, or is it ignoring it.

Thanks,
Chris DiLorenzo
Received on Wed Feb 11 2009 - 21:03:29 MST