Re: [squid-users] Squid ESI support

 On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 21:58:24 -0200, N3O wrote:
> Thanks for your answer. I downloaded a binary RPM of squid 3.1
> how can i confirm that has ESI support??
>

 squid -v should contain "--enable-esi" as one of the features.

 Requests received via a reverse-proxy port will have a
 Surrogate-Capabilities header indicating ESI/1.0 protocol support when
 they reach the origin server.

 Amos

>
> On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 7:13 PM, Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz>
> wrote:
>> On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 16:52:48 -0200, N3O wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I'm planning to install a reverse proxy server with squid but one
>>> of
>>> the requisites is that it
>>> should have ESI support.
>>> Questions
>>> Does squid have ESI support? is it good?
>>
>> Yes, in Squid-3. It works pretty well in 3.1+, 3.0 works in a
>> dedicated
>> binary but does not interact nicely with several other proxy
>> features.
>>
>> The initial sponsors saw the core parts of the protocol to
>> completion, so
>> that all works great with only an occasional bug. But some of the
>> more
>> complex pieces are not supported and/or noticeably buggy. The squid
>> bugzilla
>> has the list of known issues.
>>
>>> How do i configure ESI support in squid??
>>
>> Depends on your version. Ensure that --enable-esi is built in with
>> XML
>> libraries.
>> Once that is done Squid will auto-magically start advertising the
>> relevant
>> Surrogate-Capabilities to the origins. The server response type
>> determines
>> whether it is processed or not.
>>
>>> Are there any links to examples or tutorials of ESI configuration
>>> in
>>> squid??
>>
>> Very few unfortunately certainly nothing comprehensive. W3C specs
>> have some
>> good examples. http://www.w3.org/TR/esi-lang. But like HTML, the
>> devil is in
>> the details of how you structure the XML tags in the ESI page object
>> and
>> what caching controls you place on the raw original objects.
>>
>> Wikipedia has a list of common tools like Drupal and Zope which you
>> can use
>> to play with it
>>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge_Side_Includes
>>
>> Amos
>>
Received on Tue Feb 22 2011 - 00:40:49 MST