Re: [squid-users] negative ttl and 404

Frank Ruiz wrote:
> Is there a way to force a minimum age on 404 errors? We have a
> situation where it appears 404s are getting cached, and squid is
> honoring the TTLs of the webserver (could be hours/days). So the 404s
> persist after the default negative ttl of 5 minutes.
>
> Can we force this to 5 minutes regardless of the TTL that is passed by
> the webserver?
>
> Maybe an acl/refresh pattern or something? Didn't see anything for 404s.
>
> Thanks!

negative_ttl should be 0 seconds for HTTP compliance.

No there is not way in current Squid to cap objects storage times to
less than a year.

Amos

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