Re: [squid-users] Squid serve stale object while fetching fresh

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 18:38:35 +0200 (CEST)

On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Jake Gold wrote:

> I am looking for documentation describing Squid's (2.x and 3.x) behavior
> when an object expires.
>
> In accelerator mode does Squid serve the stale version of an object
> while it is waiting for a fresh copy, or does it block requests while it
> gets a new copy, or do all requests become misses and go through?

The latter. All requests for an expired object becomes misses until the
new status of the object is known.

There is a existing project to optimize this considerably:

   http://devel.squid-cache.org/projects.html#collapsed_forwarding

Regards
Henrik
Received on Mon Sep 27 2004 - 10:38:38 MDT

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