Re: [squid-users] Redirector irritation

From: Jim Christy <jim.christy@dont-contact.us>
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 15:45:31 +0100

On 10/24/06, Mark Elsen <mark.elsen@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > As i understand it, a redirector simply passes off the request to the
> > URL specified in the redirector program. The result of that redirect
> > is not cached.
>
> No a redirector, is a program that can rewrite url's to others.

I guess that's where i'm getting confused.

> I think the FAQ contains example(s).
>
> Caching of the result or not , is unrelated to this story.
> Because the new url 'instance' leads to a separate request.

I do have a perl redirector script which does the rewrite but should
the "new url instance" then go through Squid? Or is the original URL
what Squid tries to cache (pre-redirect)?

Cheers
Jim

>
> M.
>
Received on Tue Oct 24 2006 - 08:45:46 MDT

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