Re: [squid-users] caching objects based on content type

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2005 15:18:44 +0200 (CEST)

On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Logu wrote:

> Is it possible to make squid to cache objects based on content-type. I have
> a microsoft webserver which serves images. The url looks something like
> http://www.abc.net/pixdll?no=24 and the content type is either image/jpeg or
> sometimes text/html . But none of these obejects or not cached. Is it
> possible to cache only the image/jpeg content.

Unfortunately not without first coding the feature.

In theory one should be able to use the no_cache directive with the
rep_mime_type ACL but this can not work today as no_cache is evaluated
before forwarding the request only (i.e. no response available yet to
find the mime type from).

Regards
Henrik
Received on Fri Aug 05 2005 - 07:18:49 MDT

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