Re: squid uses HTTP/1.0 ?

Alex Rousskov wrote:

> > Cache-control: "max-age=86400"
>
> According to RFC 2616, the Cache-control directive above is invalid and
> should be ignored by a recipient. IIRC, Squid will not honor that directive
> even if it receives it. The correct syntax would be:
> Cache-control: max-age=86400

Agreed. It is invalid as it denotes the Cache-Control directive name
"max-age=86400" which is different from the directive "max-age" with the
value of "86400".

end of RFC2616 section 2.2 Basic Rules

   A string of text is parsed as a single word if it is quoted using
   double-quote marks.

This together with the definition of max-age in section "14.9
Cache-Control" gives the following valid syntaxes of the max-age=86400
cache-control directive

max-age=86400
max-age="86400"
"max-age"="86400"
"max-age"=86400

or any of these with any amount of leading zeroes on the value, as in
"max-age"="0000000000000000000000000000000000000000086400"

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Henrik Nordstrom
Spare time Squid hacker