Re: TCP_NEGATIVE_HIT

[Henrik Nordstrom]

�ge R�bekk wrote:

> TCP_NEGATIVE_HITs in the access log, which AFAIK means ``was in
> the cache but does not exist.''  How can I force it to _never_
> end up in the cache?

TCP_NEGATIVE_HIT is "we tried to request this lately, but it did not
succed and will most likely not succed now either". Such errors are by
default negatively cached for 5 minutes, but this can be changed from
squid.conf (see negative_ttl).

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Henrik Nordstrom
Spare time Squid hacker