Re: [squid-users] Wondering Why This Isn't Caching

From: Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz>
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2013 19:07:11 +1200

On 5/09/2013 5:35 a.m., Geoffrey Schwartz wrote:
> I have a page which gets cached by Firefox. Google Page Speed says it's
> cacheable as well. Squid does not cache it.
>
> I'm running Squid v3.3.8. My configuration is pretty standard... I'll post
> it if need be.
>
> The page is being served through Apache's mod_asis so I can explicitly set
> the headers. Here it is:
>
> =====
> Status: 200 A-OK
> Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2013 15:32:28 GMT
> Cache-Control: public
> Expires: Thu, 05 Sep 2013 15:32:28 GMT
> Vary: Accept-Encoding
> Content-Type: text/html
>
> <html>
> <body>
> hello, world
> </body>
> </html>
> =====
>
> When I visit the page in Firefox (I have to disable browser caching in
> order to get it to send the request in the first place), my browser
> sends/receives the following headers (according to Firebug):
> =====
> GET http://example.com/test.asis HTTP/1.1
> Host: example.com
> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:23.0)
> Gecko/20100101 Firefox/23.0
> Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
> Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
> Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
> Connection: keep-alive
>
> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2013 17:09:48 GMT
> Server: Apache/2.2.25 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.25 OpenSSL/1.0.1e DAV/2
> mod_perl/2.0.7 Perl/v5.12.4
> Cache-Control: public
> Expires: Thu, 05 Sep 2013 15:32:28 GMT
> Vary: Accept-Encoding
> Content-Length: 43
> Content-Type: text/html
> X-Cache: MISS from webcache-dev1.cc.columbia.edu
> Via: 1.1 webcache-dev1.cc.columbia.edu (squid/3.3.8)
> Connection: keep-alive
> =====
>
> I get this response every time (as in, X-Cache: MISS). I know the Date
> header gets changed (probably by apache using the last-modified time) as
> well as the Status, but the Expires header is still there (and still in the
> future). This should be cached, right? Apparently Google's Page Speed
> tool and Firefox think so.
>
> Out of curiosity, I removed the Vary header. Squid then started caching
> the page.
>
> Did I run into a bug with 3.3.8? I did several searches but wasn't able to
> find anything about this issue.

You did. There is something very strange happening with the special
cache Vary-marker object used to identify different variants of the
object behind the URL. for some reason those are not being cached for
very long by by 3.2 and later which prevents the variants being HIT on
sometimes.

Amos
Received on Thu Sep 05 2013 - 07:07:18 MDT

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