Re: What squid does with no cacheable pages?

On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Leandro Scott R.Z. Jacques wrote:

> Well, what I want to know is if squid does a temporary cache and then
> forwards that temporary cached page for the client and then deletes it
> from the cache or if squid only makes a bridge between the client and
> the server simply forwarding all the data read from the server directly
> for the client not making any temporary cache.

It's more like a application level bridge in that case. On all cache
misses Squid forwards the response while it is being received, only
waiting for the HTTP headers before the response starts to be sent to the
client.

If the object is cacheable then while this is done a copy is also written
to disk for later reuse by another client. (there is also some caching in
memory, but the basic principle is similar)

Regards
Henrik
Received on Wed Sep 21 2005 - 07:36:52 MDT