I'm using Polipo to test an application that needs to
retrieve web pages. The idea is that I build up a database
by running the application with Polipo as a proxy in
online mode, then back up the disk cache. When I want to
run a test, I just copy over the saved cache files and
re-run with Polipo in offline mode. That gets me a fixed
data set of pages to work with (and saves me from
constantly re-spidering sites when I'm testing)

Polipo _almost_ works for this. (It certainly comes a lot
closer then Squid), but it looks like there's no way to
disable Polipo honoring certain cache control headers
(even if relaxTransparency etc. are set).

I ended up changing the source to just completely zero out
the cache_control struct after every call to
httpParseHeaders, and that's fine for my purposes, but I
was wondering:

 - Should I be able to do this without modifying the
source?

 - Does anyone else have a need for such a thing? (In
which case I could clean up the changes and offer them as
a patch)

-cks

-- 
Christopher St. John
http://artofsystems.blogspot.com

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