> O'Reilly's Definitive Guide to HTML and XHTML has no reference in the index
> for either
> Expires or Cache-control, so why would any web page contain such information?
A web page wouldn't, but the HTTP response containing the HTML object/page
may.
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Surely the web page author (i.e. myself) is responsible for specifying expiry
and cache
control details?
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> It looks like Squid will fail to serve most web pages. Is this a correct
> interpretation?
Squid follows the HTTP specifications on what may be cached, and quite
closely matches what the cacheability check engine reports.
You can tweak this in by the refresh_pattern setting.
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This is what I did before and got myself into terrible trouble.
Do you have any suggestions for what to change?