Re: [squid-users] Header Packets

You have two options

a) Use the PURGE method to remove "old" content from the cache

b) Use forced reloads to force the cache to fetch new content.

Of all the headers quoted, only the Cache-Control header is important
for this discussion.

Regards
Henrik Nordström
Squid Hacker

AJ Lemke wrote:
>
> Has anyone done this before:
>
> Send a packet to a squid server running in Acceleration mode a header to
> clear and refresh an individual page.
>
> We are trying to duplicate Netscape 6.1's header it sends.
>
> GET / HTTP/1.1
> Accept = text/xml, application/xml, application/xhtml+xml, text/html;q=0.9,
> im
> Accept-Language: en-us
> Accept-Encoding = gzip,deflate,compress,identity
> User-Agent = Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:0.9.2)
> Gecko/2001072
> Host = cache.securitylabs.com
> Connection: Keep-Alive
> Cache-Control: max-age=0
>
> Roughly the proceeding.
>
> What we are doing, is developing a website management system for a
> television station. We would like to have a form where they can submit a url
> within a page and the url contain the Cache-Control: max-age=0 header and
> reload a page containing an updated news story.
>
> Anyhints or suggestions on the best way of doing this.
>
> AJ
Received on Thu Oct 18 2001 - 14:05:17 MDT