Re: [squid-users] Questions about portal sites such as yahoo cache with squid

dave jones wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 6:20 PM, Amos Jeffries wrote:
>> dave jones wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Does anyone using squid to cache yahoo portal site successfully?
>>> If so, would you tell me how to do? Thanks.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Dave.
>> Yahoo! use Squid as part of their deployment.
>> I imagine they already have the correct HTTP protocol details to make the
>> content cacheable or have good reasons for leaving it as non-cacheable.
>>
>> If you want to investigate this yourself use www.redbot.org (Yahoo!
>> sponsored) to see how cacheable the portal URLs are.
>
> Ah, the result is:
>
> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:39:12 GMT
> P3P: policyref="http://info.yahoo.com/w3c/p3p.xml", CP="CAO DSP COR CUR ADM
> DEV TAI PSA PSD IVAi IVDi CONi TELo OTPi OUR DELi SAMi OTRi UNRi
> PUBi IND PHY ONL UNI PUR FIN COM NAV INT DEM CNT STA POL HEA PRE
> LOC GOV"
> Cache-Control: private
> Connection: close
> Transfer-Encoding: chunked
> Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
> Content-Encoding: gzip
>
> Seems like the content cannot be cachable?
>

Yes, the response apparently contains private details for a specific
user. Caching and sharing around to other users is not advisable.

Amos

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