Re: [squid-users] Annoying caching problem

news@leibenzeder.de wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am using squid 2.4stable3 on a Red Hat 7.1 box and have a rather
> annoying problem. I have documents (i.e. pdf or MS office docs) on my
> webserver (apache 1.3.27) which are linked to from my web pages. So if
> you klick on the link the dialog box pops up asking you to save the file
> to disk or view it with i.e. MS Word. So far so good. The problem now is
> that squid always delivers these documents out of its cache, even if the
> documents have changed on the webserver. Looking at a tcpdump, squid
> only asked the webserver once. After that, the document is in the cache
> and squid never queries the webserver again, so if I update the document
> on the webserver I still get the cached version through my browser.
>
> Now i want to know if this is default behavior. What can I do to make
> squid get the copy from the webserver (or at least check for new
> versions). I would prefer not having to use the regex match on document
> suffixes in squid.conf to tell squid not to cache these dokuments. Can I
> somehow include a no-cache in the http header of the reply, when squid
> asks for the dokuments? A no-cache pragma in the web page containing the
> link to the documents does not help.
>
> Thanks for any hints

 What does

   http://www.ircache.net/cgi-bin/cacheability.py

 have to say for the particular objects.
 I mean when testing,specify the url containing the pdf and or MS
 office doc directly, NOT the reference page.

 M.

>
> Marc

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