Re: [squid-users] force caching (or High availability config)

On tor, 2007-12-13 at 13:57 -0700, Dmitry S. Makovey wrote:

> I have squid configured as a transparent proxy in front of application server
> (ApS). Data generated by ApS gets updated infrequently and sometimes ApS gets
> slow doing it's internal "housecleaning". What I want to do is for Squid
> to "fudge" response times a bit by timing out connections to ApS after, say
> 20s and using cached data instead (even if it's outdated). This would also
> help with ApS reboots so that data is available at all times regardless of
> responsiveness or availability of ApS.

You may want to look into Squid-2.HEAD. There is some new interesting
features there in this area.

Regards
Henrik