[squid-users] delivering stale content while fetching fresh

Hi all

I'm looking for a reverse proxy solution for a dynamic website, where
page generation is where ressource intensive and therefore slow (even if
there's no heavy load on the servers, i.e. where minimal generation time
is high). Know this website is fairly dynamic an caches would have to be
updated at least every 10 minutes. And as I've read, squid stores it's
"cache content table" in md5 and can't therefore update it's cache
content without having a request from a client giving its explicit URL.
But is there a possibility to have squid responding - to a client that
request a document that is (in some way) expired - with the stale
document while - at the same time fetching the new one and storing it to
cache: ready to deliver to the next requesting client. This would
prevent any client from waiting for a page being generated because it's
stale and still having dynamic content.

Thank you for replying!

Regards, Gregor.

Mit freundlichen Grüssen
Gregor Reich

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