On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, Chris Wilcox wrote: > I've done some google trawling on this and it appears that the current Squid > 2.x release doesn't seem to support 'offline' browsing via the cache as well > as older versions did. Many sites mention a patch which allows a value to > be set in the squid.conf file which determines how Squid behaves if a > monitored network connection is unavailable.
There is the offline_mode directive, and this can be toggled on/off via cachemgr. > If at all possible I'd really rather stick to the official squid release. > If I do this, can I acheive the ability to let users browse cached content > even if the origin server for this content is down? Yes, but the chances are very high that the content the users are looking for is not cached as most index pages these days are dynamically generated and not cachable. Caching still works great for images, "attachments" and other static content. Regards Henrik
