Re: [squid-users] refresh patterns for Caching Media

2010-05-21 Thread Amos Jeffries

Jumping Mouse wrote:




From: kafr...@hotmail.com
To: squid-users@squid-cache.org
Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 18:35:44 +0200
Subject: [squid-users] refresh patterns for Caching Media


Hello eveyone,
We are using Squid 2.7 for caching educational media files.   We are only using 
the cache for users who need to access these files.   For other internet 
traffic the cache will be bypassed.
The media files will not be changed for at least a year at which point I will 
run a script to pre-load the cache with the new media files.

1. How can I set the refresh pattern to never refresh these media files?   The 
files are swf (flash) flv, and mp3, etc.
This is what I currently have for media:

refresh_pattern -i \.(iso|avi|wav|mp3|mp4|mpeg|swf|flv|x-flv)$ 43200 90% 432000 
override-expire override-lastmod reload-into-ims ignore-reload ignore-no-cache 
ignore-no-store ignore-private

2. If  I have already pre-loaded media files into the cache, will changes to 
the refresh patterns work retroactively on these files, or will I have to load 
them into the cache again?

Thanks.

Kafriki




does anyone have any suggestions or recommendations that they can share with me on this? 		 	   		  


Sorry, my first reply seems to have gone astray completely.

re: 1)  the pattern and rules you have are about as good as you can get 
in squid. The core design of Squid caching is to provide up-to-date 
copies rather than archiving stale/obsolete garbage.


A better way to do this for such long times would probably be to 
download the data into local directories and setup your own local web 
server for them. Squid can be configured to fetch listed URLS from a 
specific cache_peer source without keeping its own duplicate copies 
(proxy-only option) or going to an external source (never_direct).


Then you would have zero worries about loosing things out of the cache.


re: 2) yes they work at the point of re-request or garbage collection 
(which also happens on startup/reconfigure). so retroactive on whatever 
is in the cache then.


Amos
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Please be using
  Current Stable Squid 2.7.STABLE9 or 3.1.3


RE: [squid-users] refresh patterns for Caching Media

2010-05-20 Thread Jumping Mouse



 From: kafr...@hotmail.com
 To: squid-users@squid-cache.org
 Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 18:35:44 +0200
 Subject: [squid-users] refresh patterns for Caching Media


 Hello eveyone,
 We are using Squid 2.7 for caching educational media files.   We are only 
 using the cache for users who need to access these files.   For other 
 internet traffic the cache will be bypassed.
 The media files will not be changed for at least a year at which point I will 
 run a script to pre-load the cache with the new media files.

 1. How can I set the refresh pattern to never refresh these media files?   
 The files are swf (flash) flv, and mp3, etc.
 This is what I currently have for media:

 refresh_pattern -i \.(iso|avi|wav|mp3|mp4|mpeg|swf|flv|x-flv)$ 43200 90% 
 432000 override-expire override-lastmod reload-into-ims ignore-reload 
 ignore-no-cache ignore-no-store ignore-private

 2. If  I have already pre-loaded media files into the cache, will changes to 
 the refresh patterns work retroactively on these files, or will I have to 
 load them into the cache again?

 Thanks.

 Kafriki



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on this?  
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[squid-users] refresh patterns for Caching Media

2010-05-19 Thread Jumping Mouse

Hello eveyone, 
We are using Squid 2.7 for caching educational media files.   We are only using 
the cache for users who need to access these files.   For other internet 
traffic the cache will be bypassed. 
The media files will not be changed for at least a year at which point I will 
run a script to pre-load the cache with the new media files. 

1. How can I set the refresh pattern to never refresh these media files?   The 
files are swf (flash) flv, and mp3, etc. 
This is what I currently have for media:

refresh_pattern -i \.(iso|avi|wav|mp3|mp4|mpeg|swf|flv|x-flv)$ 43200 90% 432000 
override-expire override-lastmod reload-into-ims ignore-reload ignore-no-cache 
ignore-no-store ignore-private

2. If  I have already pre-loaded media files into the cache, will changes to 
the refresh patterns work retroactively on these files, or will I have to load 
them into the cache again?

Thanks. 

Kafriki
  
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