Re: How to work without Internet connection

On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 08:57:42PM +1000, Jeffrey Borg wrote:
> If it's not going to be gig's of data then maybe squid isn't quite right
> for the job
...
> On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, AUBORD Alain wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I have spent some time browsing documentation and FAQ without finding
> > solution to my problem.
> >
> > I am trying to install squid to have a proxy-server behind an intermittent ppp
> > link to Internet. I would be interested to access the data in the cache when
> > the link is down (even if the data are out of date). It seems that a running
> > connection to internet is mandatory when asking for a document (at least to
> > verify if the document is up to date).
> >
> > My question is "how to configure squid to retrieve an document in the cache
> > with no connection at all to Internet ?" (if that is possible).

From the comments in the squid.conf file (source of much otherwise
undocumented info!) - try this:

# TAG: offline_mode
# Enable this option and Squid will never try to validate cached
# objects.
offline_mode on

  -- Clifton

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