Re: [squid-users] Keep serving cached content on httpd failure

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Jim Nachlin wrote:

> Is there a way to get squid to serve its cached content if the web server is
> unreachable by the squid server or under other conditions (server returns
> http status of > 400)?

Done automatically on content which can be revalidated.

> If the web server goes down, can the cache continue
> to serve cached objects indefinitely?

In principle yes, until thrown out of the cache.

But this only works on cacheable requests. If the client sends a request
which probits the use of the cache things will obviously fail, or if the
server reply is not cacheable or having able to revalidate.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Tue Oct 19 2004 - 12:00:28 MDT