Re: [MERGE] Squid Patch (revision 10487)

How about:

When Squid has a stale cached response available, it will not
query siblings, by default. When this setting is on Squid will
do so, as long as the cache_peer line for the sibling does not
have the 'allow-miss' option configured.

?

On 23/05/2010, at 9:42 AM, Alex Rousskov wrote:

> On 05/19/2010 08:00 PM, Mark Nottingham wrote:
>> Minor suggestions for the documentation:
>>
>> +NAME: access_sibling_when_stale
>> +COMMENT: on|off
>> +TYPE: onoff
>> +DEFAULT: off
>> +LOC: Config.onoff.access_sibling_for_stale_resource
>> +DOC_START
>> + By default, Squid will not contact siblings when it has
>> + a stale cached response available. If on, siblings
>> + that do not have the 'allow-miss' cache_peer option will
>> + be queried even when there is a stale cached response.
>> +DOC_END
>
> It is still not clear to an uninitiated reader whether "this" Squid or
> the sibling proxy has the stale response. "it has" and "there is" should
> be replaced with something more specific, IMHO.
>
> HTH,
>
> Alex.

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