LinuxSA Mailing list archives

  From: MWP <hirm@chariot.net.au>
  To  : linuxsa <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 14:48:59 +1030

Re: Squid.....

 Hi...

 > 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?

Yep...
Thats what i mean.... similar to IE's and other browsers offline function.

> 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.

Most of this is explained in the squid.conf itself, check the
"refresh_pattern" directive notes.

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

Yep... anyone know how to set this up?

> </dribble>
> --
> Jake Hawkes, B.Eng (CSE)
> >
> > "I'm only smart enough to know how stupid I am", Joe Strummer.
> >
> > --
> > LinuxSA WWW: http://www.linuxsa.org.au/  IRC: #linuxsa on
irc.linux.org.au
> > To unsubscribe from the LinuxSA list:
> >   mail linuxsa-request@linuxsa.org.au with "unsubscribe" as the subject
> >
>

-- 
LinuxSA WWW: http://www.linuxsa.org.au/  IRC: #linuxsa on irc.linux.org.au
To unsubscribe from the LinuxSA list:
  mail linuxsa-request@linuxsa.org.au with "unsubscribe" as the subject