RE: Cacheing "CGI requests"

Thanks a lot.
My next question is then:

Does squid cache these requests using the complete URL (after the ? also)?
If yes, how long can a URL string be (in squid2) ?

Kjell

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nottingham, Mark (Australia)
> [mailto:mark_nottingham@exchange.au.ml.com]
> Sent: 13. oktober 1998 01:46
> To: 'Kjell Roeang'
> Cc: 'Squid'
> Subject: RE: Cacheing "CGI requests"
>
>
> It can be done, but there are catches:
>
> 1. the CGI must produce a 'Last-Modified' header
> 2. the CGI must determine when an If-Modified-Since request is made, and
> respond appropriately (304 Not Modified)
> 3. the proxy must be configured to cache the response (i.e., if it's URL
> is in cgi-bin or has a query (?), many caches are configured to not
> store it).
>
> There are many ways to do this; I'm in the middle of designing a system
> to distribute authenticated, CGI-based information worldwide through a
> series of HTTP/1.1 compliant acellerators, hopefully with a Cisco
> Distributed Director on the front end. For my next trick...
>
> See the HTTP/1.1 drafts on http://www.w3.org/ for more details. I'm in
> the process of writing a paper on how to do this, stay tuned.
>
> POST can indeed not be cached. The implications: use GET. If you're
> doing large post, chances are it isn't cacheable anyway.
>
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Kjell Roeang [mailto:kjell@cmr.no]
> > Sent: Monday, October 12, 1998 9:13 PM
> > To: squid-users@ircache.net
> > Subject: Cacheing "CGI requests"
> >
> >
> > Hi
> > I have an application where I process and distribute some
> > data using HTTP.
> > The application that "process" the data is some kind of "CGI"
> > program that
> > takes some input file(s) and paramters an generate an output
> > file. The last
> > modified date of this processed file is then the last
> > modified date of the
> > input file. I also want to "resuse" the result over several
> > requests and
> > clients. My questions are then:
> > Can/should I use Squied to store and distribute the results?
> > Is there any "optimal" configuration setup to do this?
> > I have read that POST requests can not be cached. Is that true and
> > want implications does that have?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Kjell
> >
> > Kjell Røang
> > Tlf. 22 49 19 23
> > email kjell@cmr.no
> >
>
>
Received on Tue Oct 13 1998 - 01:10:27 MDT