I use nocache and expire headers in most of the sites I code. Not for banners, but to make sure my user is getting the most up to date info in whatever database they are querying.
On Wed, 2002-01-09 at 14:47, Sean Reifschneider wrote: > On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 07:57:28AM -0800, Bob Miller wrote: > >The proxy server comes in handiest when I find out that one browser > >won't render a page correctly, and want to reload the same page in a > >different browser. The second browser doesn't wait at all for the > >page. > > I used to run squid, but I found it didn't help as much as I had hoped. I > had even slaved it off our up-stream cache, so I could hopefully get pages > faster if ANYONE else had gotten them recently. > > The problem being that many web sites (particularly the slower ones, > suprisingly enough) were setting their headers so that the pages would > expire immediately and squid would re-load them anyway. Web-sites, > particularly those that have banner advertising, like to get as many hits > as possible, wether it's a re-load of the same visitor or not. > > I should try it again though. I'd particularly like it on my laptop when > I'm on that amazingly slow 1KB wireless connection. > > >Sorry, let me rephrase the question: What about a transparent > >FTP *CACHING* proxy? > > Squid will cache ftp:// URLs if you set up your browser to go through it. > Not sure what the status of using a proxy with various command-line clients > is. I'd be suprised if lftp didn't support it, though. > > Sean > -- > "I was on IRC once and got mistaken for Dan Bernstein. I still have > nightmares." -- Donnie Barnes > Sean Reifschneider, Inimitably Superfluous <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > tummy.com - Linux Consulting since 1995. Qmail, KRUD, Firewalls, Python -- Christopher Maujean IT Director, Premierelink Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.premierelink.com/ 541-344-8575x305 PGP: --------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.keyserver.net/ KeyID: EFAF4176 Fingerprint: 55E6 4DE1 D7D3 361E F265 C094 46F2 7B62 EFAF 4176 ---------------------------------------------------------------
