Re: polygraph webaxe and HEAD

On 12 Aug 2002, Robert Collins wrote:

> I'm getting
>
> 554.16| CltXact.cc:442: error: 214/214 (c27) hit on reload request
>
> from the polygraph client during the webaxe-4 test.
>
> Is this expected? (I presume not)

It is a know problem (with Squid), IIRC. That is, at least Duane knows
about it. IIRC, There are some optimization shortcuts that let Squid
issue one request to the server when receiving two, nearly
simultaneous, requests from clients.

> Does anyone know what specific headers polygraph uses to to a 'reload'?

Polygraph uses

        Cache-control: no-cache
        Pragma: no-cache

in the request, I think.

> (Yes, I know, too lazy to setup MIME logging just yet).

Use "--dump errs" with polyclt to see more info. "--dump hdrs" will
show headers for all transactions.

HTH,

Alex.

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