Re: [squid-users] using wget by one client only

You can always address this at the client, by including the request
headers "Pragma: no-cache" or "Cache-Control: no-cache".

wget has the option --header for adding custom HTTP headers

Lynx has the -reload option which adds the above header.

Regards
Henrik Nordström
Squid Hacker

khiz code wrote:
>
> Hi all
>
> is it possible that i hv one client whose requests are always fetched
> directly from the origin server ( i.e he is never served stale data due
> to squid's refresh patterns)
> however those replies should be cached and served to other clients
>
> the purpose behind doing all this is that i ve one particular client
> which will periodically run something like wget and populate the cache
> other clients will then get fresh data from the cache ..with the cache
> not hving to contact the origin server each time for these clients
>
> i m asking this coz i think that requests made by wget will also be
> treated like normal web requests from other clients . so its quite
> possible that even it might be served stale data so the entire plan of
> running wget periodically to fetch data might not work .. unless ive
> got it all wrong ;-)
>
> thanks
> khizcode
>
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Received on Wed Oct 10 2001 - 04:08:37 MDT