>
> Hi,
>
> I am a new user to squid (and this mailing-list) and I have
> a question
> regarding the caching of files.
>
> The system is a new redhat 9 system with pre-configured
> squid. I checked
> the
> configuration parameters and it seems to be fine for our
> needs. Looking at
> the (access) log-file I can see that for most of the pages I
> get "hits"
> instead of "miss"es.
>
> BUT
>
> We are trying to use "Host on Demand" from IBM and there is something
> called
> a "cached client". Because we have very slow connections to
> our locations
> we
> want the proxy to cache the installation files (which are
> *.cab files) and
> they are not cached.
>
> I tested XLS and DOC files and they are cached, PDFs seem
> not to be cached.
>
> I found a parameter for a "maximum size" but our files are
> smaller than
> defined there.
>
> Does anybody have an idea if I need to set-up the filetypes
> which should be
> cached and if so, how I do that. Any other hint in the right
> direction
> would
> be very much appreciated too!
>
> Cheers,
> Markus
>
>
Use this 'tool' to examin cacheability parameters for
various objects you retrieve from this site :
http://www.ircache.net/cgi-bin/cacheability.py
M.
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