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  From: Jake Hawkes <jake@eclectic.com.au>
  To  : MWP <hirm@chariot.net.au>
  Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 13:41:43 +1030

Re: Squid.....

MWP wrote:
> 
> Hi all...
> 
> Somewhere I read that squid has an "offline" function.
> 
> Ive done a bit of web seaching and looked through the squid docs and have
> found nothing.
> 
> Can it be done??

what do you mean "offline function"?

like someone asks for a page, but we're not connected to the internet,
so we just server whatever we happen to have cached?

this raises a general web cache question that I have, does squid try to
get the page, discover it hasn't changed, and so serve the cached one?
Or does it serve the cached page by looking the HTML headers it got from
the origional web server.

for example, if a machine has its browser start page set to icq.com,
then you'd be justified in assuming that that page is probably fully
cached. Yet squid will not serve it straight away - it makes connection
to icq.com first.

I guess, "offline" mode would mean "dont check source web server"

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Jake Hawkes, B.Eng (CSE)

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