Re: [squid-users] Urgent, browser caching cgis

From: Fernando Costa de Almeida <falmeida@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 16:42:24 -0300

What I dont understant is why the problem disapears when I dont use the
proxy! Without proxy, the browser doesnt cache the cgi...

>
> The correct way to fix this is to have the cgi-bin script add the tag
> <meta HTTP-EQUIV="Pragma: CONTENT=""no-cache"> in the "<head>" portion
> of the html it generates. You should not have been trying to fix this
> in squid in the first place. This is NOT a squid issue. It would work
> exactly the same if your browser and server were running on the same
> system.

>> Hi,

>> Im facing a problem with the caching of squid here in my instalation...
>> I have a cgi page that cant be cached, so I put the following entry in
>> squid.conf:

>> acl mydomain dstdomain .mydomain.com.br
>> no_cache deny mydomain

>> This way (I think) pages inside mydomain.com.br will not be cached
>> anymore. So I take a look in the access.log to see what was happening
>> and saw that all pages (of my cgis) had a TCP_MISS clause, what, I
>> presume, is the correct!!

>> The problem is that when the proxy in on, my browser (IE 6.0), saves in
>> its local cache a copy of the cgi-page, with the Expire of an hour ago
>> and the Last Modification of 31/12/1969 21:00, and subsequents requests
>> returns the cached page instead the fresh one... I already tuned IE to
>> check for new versions of the page in every visit, and etc... but the
> >problem persists... With the proxy off, no copy of the cgi-page is saved
>> to the disk...
>>
>> Im doing transparent cache, but even pointing my browser to use my squid
>> machine:3128, the problem persists, so I think that the problem has
>> nothing to do with transparent caching...

>> System: FreeBSD 4.6.2
>> Squid 2.4.STABLE7
>>
>> Any help will be apreciated,
>>
>> _______________________________________
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Received on Wed Sep 18 2002 - 13:37:42 MDT

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