On Sun, 13 Dec 1998, Thomas Osterried wrote: > On Sat, Dec 12, 1998 at 01:56:15PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > > apt-get gets the package-descriptions. the proxy learns them. but it > > > seems, that in the next runs of apt-get squid offers always the old > > > files. > > Squid does not support the HTTP cache-control headers so there is no way > > to inform it to reload the cache. The new aot sends the proper cache > > hmm, as far as i can see (in the source), squid does look if a page is > reloaded by a client, looking at the "Pragma: no-cache" tag. > > squid-2.1.RELEASE/src/client_side.c:
Perhaps the person I was talking to was refering to the released 2.0. I have a patch someplace that makes 2.0 support at least Cache-Control: no-cache so it's likely that 2.1 supports it too. The pragma header is an old http/1.0 throw back Jason
