Re: offline_mode

Still, option 1 is simple and inexpensive, so it seems reasonable to me.

   K

On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 8:56 AM, Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au> wrote:
> I think its something that should be better fleshed out, yes.
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> There's probably bigger fish to fry in the codebase though.
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> Adrian
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> On Sat, Apr 05, 2008, Amos Jeffries wrote:
> > Bug 1356 brings up some confusion over what the true meaning of
> > 'offline' is for this option.
> >
> > As Henrik pointed out fairly early in the discussion there, squids
> > actual behavior is to 'aggressively cache', not a true
> > "network-disconnected" mode.
> >
> > I'm proposing that the option have one or both of two things done to it:
> >
> > 1) simply renamed to something more descriptive ie cache_aggressive on/off.
> >
> > 2) that it be kept as 'offline' but changed to accept a range of flags
> > indicating which of the external-interface engines inside squid are to
> > behave as if they were offline. ie "offine cache dns auth"
> >
> > When any given feature is marked for offline it behaves in a true "not
> > packet leaves the interface" fashion.
> > ie
> > - 'dns' means no new DNS lookups are performed.
> > - 'cache' means no refreshes are performed (RFC 2616 allows for
> > stale objects already in cache to be used with certain response types)
> > - etc.
> >
> > We may need to exempt localhost traffic from offline mode explicitly.
> > But will need to be consistent with it.
> >
> > The existing 'aggressive caching' behaviour may be possible by other
> > means with cache ACL or refresh_patterns. Or a 'cache=semi' style tag
> > might be chosen.
> >
> > Or, we may choose to do both of the above changes.
> >
> > Amos
> > --
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