Re: [squid-users] STALE & FRESH & OLD ???

STALE is when the object is still in the cache but needs to be revalidated on
the next request.

"OLD" is better described as stale objects that cannot be revalidated.

Regards
Henrik Nordström
Squid Hacker

On Thursday 15 November 2001 10.39, Jurgen Hart wrote:
> Hy all,
>
> I've some very basic question but I just need to know to understand
> things well.
> The cache objects have 3 states right ? FRESH,STALE,OLD
>
> For FRESH i supose that the object is like the STATE says fresh and thus
> do not need a refetch from originating server ?!
>
> For OLD I supose that the object is old and need a refetch from the
> server ?!
>
> But what does STALE mean ???
>
> Jurre
Received on Thu Nov 15 2001 - 03:45:52 MST