Re: squid cache
On Sat, 13 Oct 2001 01:43, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> So in the default mode of operation, the "min" parameter never comes
> into play unless the Last-Modified header is absent.
>
> For a while, I was using a huge "percent" parameter to cause it to
> always bypass that check, and use the "min" age:
>
> refresh_pattern Packages\.gz$ 1440 1000% 1440
> refresh_pattern Sources\.gz$ 1440 1000% 1440
> refresh_pattern \.orig.tar.gz$ 43200 1000% 43200
> refresh_pattern \.deb$ 43200 1000% 43200
> refresh_pattern \.dsc$ 43200 1000% 43200
>
> This has worked well in the past, but recently I've traded one ugliness
> for another, and I'm violating the RFC using override-lastmod:
That shouldn't be necessary though. Squid tells the web server to only
deliver the document if it's newer than a cached copy. For .deb files that
should never happen and override-lastmod should only prevent that check
saving 500 bytes of transfer but having no impact on the 1M file transfer.
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