Re: [squid-users] Does Squid Cache Active Content

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From: "BCMAC" <bcmac@bcmac.cc>
To: <squid-users@squid-cache.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2001 5:53 PM
Subject: [squid-users] Does Squid Cache Active Content

> Does squid cache active content or not? I want to run Squid at work but
> the boss wants Microsoft's ISA server because it can cache active
> content or content with a ? mark in it, as per MS. If it (Squid) can I
> need some documentation stating it can do this. The problem is that

The default squid doesn't cache content with a ? in the URL, BUT in
squid.conf the command no_cache defines what squid will never cache - so
changing or removing the no_cache directive means squid will cache "active"
content - content with a ? or cgi-bin.

Note: if the content doesn't have appropriate expiry information, caching
the content may lead to incorrect browsing results. I suspect ISA never
caches active content when the expiry has to be calculated via heuristics -
and squid could be made to do that but code changes would be needed.

Rob

> even if Squid, without caching active content, is faster than ISA in
> every other aspect, the boss will go with whatever MS marketing says.
> The box I'm building for this function is: Dual PIII 933, 1 maybe 2 GB
> RAM, and Hardware RAID 0 across six 9GB drives for the cache.
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
>
Received on Sat Jul 14 2001 - 02:04:08 MDT