Re: [squid-users] Caching requests with parameters in the URL?

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, Brian Lalor wrote:

> I think I've figured out the problem; I commented out these two lines in
> squid.conf:
>
> acl QUERY urlpath_regex cgi-bin \?
> no_cache deny QUERY

Right. I assumed you had already done this.

> Even when my server was returning headers to allow squid to cache (and proven
> by the cacheability check engine), squid would drop anything with query
> params in the URL, a la
> http://example.com/some_cacheable_resource?not=happy
>
> Now squid seems happy without the acl and no_cache lines. Will this cause
> other problems?

The above lines is in the default config mainly to limit the damage caused
by people tweaking their refresh_pattern settings without knowing what
they do. With inappropriate refresh_pattern settings it is relatively easy
to make Squid cache content not having any freshness information such as
is the case for most cgi and other dynamic pages.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Fri Oct 22 2004 - 00:32:13 MDT