Re: [squid-users] peer selection with weight=N

> lör 2010-02-20 klockan 03:40 -0200 skrev H:
>
>> # use 'allow-miss' to disable Squid's use of only-if-cached when forwarding
>> requests to siblings.
>>
>> eventually needs better explanation/clarification
>
> It's a fine tuning, to allow the sibling to refresh it's cache content
> if the hit is on a stale object.
>

well, that is a good understandable statement which I guess makes everyone happy

you could consider changing the squid.conf.default to this and let it clear
that allow-miss actually do not fetch new but refresh stale objetcs

>
> This error response sent by the sibling should be masked by Squid and
> never shown to the requesting user.
>

sure

>> and the returned erro needs revision because it comes up ERR_ACCESS_DENIED
>> and
>> should be better ERR_ONLY_IF_CACHED_MISS
>
> Are you sure the request was sent to the sibling?
>

yes, I tcpdumped the connection

> I would have expected ERR_CANNOT_FORWARD.
>

the above erro is what was sent as html_error_page to the client by the
transparent proxy, don't know what was in the access log

H
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Received on Sun Feb 21 2010 - 09:32:46 MST