[ILUG] Squid and Firewall

[Niall O Broin]

On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 12:34:13PM -0500, Wesley Darlington 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

That sounds about right - changing a reload into an if modified since. If
the default config talks about this being non RFC compliant then I believe
that's it.


Niall