The problem is that the ActiveX control used by Windows Update requests the files with a CLIENT_REFRESH tag. I'm using these two lines to get around this.
refresh_pattern windowsupdate.com/.*\.(cab|exe) 4320 100% 43200 reload-into-ims refresh_pattern download.microsoft.com/.*\.(cab|exe) 4320 100% 43200 reload-into-ims /Andreas ----- Original Message ----- From: "Zen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hello all, > > I have Squid running on a local box. We do a lot of Windows Updates. My > problem is that Squid doesn't seem to be caching the Windows Updates. I have > read several posts in the net relating to this issue but haven't seen any > definitive answers as to which items in the config file are crucial to > getting this to happen. If I download a large file to my desktop, delete it, > then download it again, it seems to cache it fine. But with Windows updates, > that doesn't seem to be the case. I don't believe the file size is the > issue. I have it set to 25 MB. > > Is anybody using Squid to cache Windows updates that could email or post > their squid.conf file? > > Thanks, > Zen >
