Re: [squid-users] I can't get squid to cache a file!

On 14/07/2013 4:30 p.m., Golden Shadow wrote:
> Hi Squid-Users!
>
> I'm trying to change the refresh_pattern directives in order to be able to cache the following file:
> http://download.thinkbroadband.com/10MB.zip
>
> According to http://redbot.org/ cacheability engine, the file is cacheable:
> ******************************************************************************************************************************************************************
> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 04:22:37 GMT
> Server: Apache
> Last-Modified: Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:30:33 GMT
> ETag: "11f000a-a00000-44eb0ad25f840"
> Accept-Ranges: bytes
> Content-Length: 10485760
> Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
> Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=100
> Connection: Keep-Alive
> Content-Type: application/zip
>
> General
> The server's clock is correct.
> The Content-Length header is correct.
> Caching
> The resource last changed 5 years 42 days ago.
> This response allows all caches to store it.
> This response allows a cache to assign its own freshness lifetime.
> Validation
> If-Modified-Since conditional requests are supported.
> If-None-Match conditional requests are supported.
> Partial Content
> A ranged request returned the correct partial content.
>
> ******************************************************************************************************************************************************************
>
> But nevertheless, my squid store.log has the following entry for this file:
> 1373775292.264 RELEASE -1 FFFFFFFF 33A07BF3D72816A61CACF7753922BB3F 200 1373775276 1212420633 -1 application/zip 10485760/10485760 GET http://download.thinkbroadband.com/10MB.zip
>
>
> Which means it was not saved to cache! I tried different refresh_pattern such as:
> refresh_pattern . 43200000 100% 43200000 override-expire override-lastmod reload-into-ims ignore-reload ignore-no-cache ignore-private ignore-auth
> but could not get this file to be cached!

43200000 is too large. Your Squid will be cutting that back to 1 year
and the object is already >5 years old.

> I also have those directives in my squid.conf:
> minimum_object_size 16 KB
> maximum_object_size 512 MB
>
>
> Would you please help me by showing what needs to be changed in order to cache this file?

Please remove all those ignore-* and override-* options on the
refresh_pattern and ensure the object size limitations are above the
cache_dir settings in your squid.conf.

Amos
Received on Sun Jul 14 2013 - 08:41:13 MDT