On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 15:34 +0100, Henrik Nordstrom wrote: > After analyzing a large cache with significantly declining hit ratio > over the last months I have came to the conclusion that the removal of > cache deny QUERY can have a very negative impact on hit ratio, this due > to a number of flash video sites (youtube, google, various porno sites > etc) who include per-view unique query parameters in the URL and > responding with a cachable response. > > Because of this I suggest that we add back the cache deny rule in the > recommended config, but leave the refresh_pattern change as-is.
Taking all the responses on this thread into account, it seems like what you are proposing should be done as a temporary solution to the problem. Does this affect both Squid versions? Thank you, Alex.