[Server-devel] Web Caching Issues

[Andra DuPont]

How do I "Crank up the debugging/logging options" ???

On Mar 16, 2010, at 11:26 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 10:38 PM, Andra DuPont <andradupont at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have reconfigured my server so that my internet connection goes straight
>> from my DSL modem to eth0 on the XS. This did not solve the problem (web
> 
> That part is strange, probably the logs (cache.log I think) will help.
> Crank up the debugging/logging options of Squid...
> 
>> as the internet is active on eth0 of XS). When I disconnect the internet
>> service, the AP computers can still get to the schoolserver, but not to the
>> external web pages that should have been cached from the internet.
> 
> Well... while I wish that could work, I don't think we can expect it
> to work at the moment for various reasons.
> 
> Most websites don't use http caching headers effectively, and Squid
> follows them; observing directives like "must-revalidate" means that
> offline won't work.
> 
> For the task you are trying to accomplish, wwwoffle is _the_ tool.
> http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/wwwoffle/
> 
> Squid and other "conventional"  proxies are too "correct" to be useful ;-)
> 
> cheers,
> 
> 
> 
> m
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