[ILUG] Squid and Firewall

[Wesley Darlington]

On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 05:16:05PM +0000, Niall O Broin wrote:
> This can also be a browser thing. It was driving me demented because squid
> was definitely reloading things I knew were in its cache. It was discussed
> at length here some time ago. The solution is to make a modification to the
> squid configuration which is not RFC compliant but stops a lot of browser
> requests for unnecessary refreshing of pages. Unfortunately I'm a little
> removed from y squid configuation at the moment so I can't find it right
> now. Wesley - do you remember what it was because we had a lot of back and
> forth on it as you might remember.

My archives suggest that it involved changing this line in squid.conf...

#refresh_pattern        .               0       20%     4320

...to something like this one...

refresh_pattern        .               0       20%     4320 reload-into-ims

Wesley.