David J N Begley wrote:
> - I thought we had fairly aggressive caching practices; for example:
>
> #hierarchy_stoplist cgi-bin ? -- (ie., default, nothing uncommented)
> #no_cache -- nothing
> refresh_pattern . 1440 200% 43200
While this is perfectly legal thing to do, you should know the
implications of doing so..
RFC 2068 section 13.2.2 Heuristic Expiration
...
worst-case constraints on their results. Since heuristic expiration
times may compromise semantic transparency, they should be used
cautiously, and we encourage origin servers to provide explicit
expiration times as much as possible.
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Henrik Nordstrom
Spare time Squid hacker
