Re: [squid-users] caching for 60 minutes, ignoring any header

2013-09-24 Thread Ron Klein
Hi, I carefully read your thorough and helpful response. FOA, thanks for the helpful response, appreciated. Thanks for the explanation about the difference between online and offline caching servers, I'm quite new to caching servers - most of the caching I was a part of was done in the applicat

Re: [squid-users] caching for 60 minutes, ignoring any header

2013-09-23 Thread Eliezer Croitoru
Hey Ron, I added notes near the quotes. On 09/23/2013 12:13 PM, Ron Klein wrote: > I'll describe the real scenario in a more detailed way, but I can't > disclose all of it. > It's OK since it's a public list. > There are a few machines, let's name them M1 to M9, that are processing > data. OK >

Re: [squid-users] caching for 60 minutes, ignoring any header

2013-09-23 Thread Ron Klein
I'll describe the real scenario in a more detailed way, but I can't disclose all of it. There are a few machines, let's name them M1 to M9, that are processing data. From time to time, those machines should make HTTP requests to external servers, that are business partners. All of these HTTP r

Re: [squid-users] caching for 60 minutes, ignoring any header

2013-09-23 Thread Amos Jeffries
On 23/09/2013 7:21 p.m., Ron Klein wrote: My example of favicons was to simplify the question. The real case is different. Then please tell us the real details. In full if possible. favicon is one of the special-case type of URLs and like Eliezer and I already mentioned there are some specific

Re: [squid-users] caching for 60 minutes, ignoring any header

2013-09-23 Thread Ron Klein
Hi Amos, Thanks for your thorough response. Please refer to my response to Eliezer. Thanks! On 23-Sep-13 07:29, Amos Jeffries wrote: On 23/09/2013 3:01 p.m., Ron Klein wrote: Hi, I'm trying to cache all favicons files, named favicon.ico, located always in the root of the web site (when they

Re: [squid-users] caching for 60 minutes, ignoring any header

2013-09-23 Thread Ron Klein
My example of favicons was to simplify the question. The real case is different. I want to cache all "favicons" (that is, other resources, internally used) for 60 minutes. For a given "favicon", I'd like to have the following caching policy: The period of 60 minutes should start when the first c

Re: [squid-users] caching for 60 minutes, ignoring any header

2013-09-22 Thread Amos Jeffries
On 23/09/2013 3:01 p.m., Ron Klein wrote: Hi, I'm trying to cache all favicons files, named favicon.ico, located always in the root of the web site (when they exist, of course) I would like to ignore any caching instruction originates from the (real) web server response headers. For instance,

Re: [squid-users] caching for 60 minutes, ignoring any header

2013-09-22 Thread Eliezer Croitoru
Youd better leave it on the default since most browsers will cache it automatically. a HIT can be a vary of HITs like TCP_IMS_HIT etc and not just a TCP_HIT. You also need to understand how squid does the cache and override. How is it goes without the refresh_pattern? why would you want to force it

[squid-users] caching for 60 minutes, ignoring any header

2013-09-22 Thread Ron Klein
Hi, I'm trying to cache all favicons files, named favicon.ico, located always in the root of the web site (when they exist, of course) I would like to ignore any caching instruction originates from the (real) web server response headers. For instance, if I get the "last modified" header, I'd l