Re: [squid-users] how far is squit in supporting http/1.1?

On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, willem wrote:

> I work for an Internet company and was recently given the assignment to
> look how well proxy's caching systems work. Do they support the standard
> http/1.0 (or maybe even http/1.1, is that supported)? I meen in terms of
> expires, pragma and other cache control

willem,

        Most proxy caches support HTTP/1.0. Many, including Squid,
support most important caching and performance features of HTTP/1.1,
including cache-control headers you mentioned above. Squid is not
HTTP/1.1 compliant yet, but you are unlikely to notice that.

At this time, there is no practical way to test for full HTTP/1.1
compliance so it is unknown whether any cache is fully compliant. For
most practical purposes, you probably do not care about formal
compliance though.

Alex.
Received on Mon Mar 19 2001 - 10:42:52 MST