Re: [squid-users] Disconnected system caching

Dingwell, Robert A. wrote:
> Amos,
>
> Thanks for the suggestion but I thought offline_mode would not attempt
> to access the origin server and would merely return the cached content
> that it has, is this correct? If so is there a way to override its
> behaviour to serve from the cache just when the origin is down?
>
> Essentially what I would like is for squid to cache everything and serve
> up the cache when the origin is down. Even though this is all contained
> on our own wan attempting to get everyone to set the stale-if-error
> header is too difficult . We have a number of RESTful services that
> other services are dependent on and when those REST services are
> unavailable we still want to have the other services that depend on that
> data to function properly, even if it means the potential of using stale
> data.
>
> Thanks
>
> Rob Dingwell
>

I'm not exactly certain of the full behavior of offline_mode.
I do know that its not a true offline, but does aggressive caching like
you asked for.

Some testing is in order to see if it meets your needs or not. Until a
better version comes along.

Amos

>
>
> On 3/20/09 10:11 PM, "Amos Jeffries" <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz> wrote:
>
> Dingwell, Robert A. wrote:
> > Does anybody know if there is a way to do this?
>
> Try offline_mode on.
> Which is not a true offline, but an aggressive caching mode.
>
> Amos
>
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Rob
> >
> >
> > On 3/18/09 3:59 PM, "Dingwell, Robert A." <bobd_at_mitre.org> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I’m looking for a way to cache data from systems that are
> disconnected at
> > > times and to serve from the cache when the systems are
> disconnected. I know
> > > that 2.7 supports the stale-if-error directive but I believe that
> requires
> > > the origin to set that in the content header which is currently
> out of the
> > > realm of possibilities. Is there another way to do this? Can I use
> > > header_replace to force the stale-if-error directive?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > >
> >
>
>
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