Re: reload-into-ims not work with netscape

It appears to me that there is another problem with Internet Explorer (5 at
least, not sure about 4) when dealing with it's cache on one URL that I am
aware of so far.

If I go to http://www.national.com.au/banking/ via a bookmark/favorite that
I have with the same URL, it fails, with some of the images on the page
coming up, but two of the main frames failing "404 - not found". This is
confirmed by looking in my squid access log. If I then do a refresh on the
page, it comes up fine, but will fail if I subsequently go via the favorite
again. I have IE set to check for a newer version "Every visit to the page".

If however I go to the URL by typing it in directly into the location bar,
it comes up first time without a problem, and no refresh is required.

The problem doesn't occur with Netscape...

Reuben

At Saturday 24/07/99 11:11 PM +0200, you wrote:
>I would say reload-into-ims works just fine with Netscape according to
>your logs (TCP_REFRESH_xxx), however the reload button in your IE does
>not as it doesn't instruct the cache to reload the object, it only
>checks if the cache has a newer object cached.
>
>The main difference seen when using reload-into-ims is that shift-reload
>in Netscape gets translated to a forced refresh (TCP_REFRESH_xxx) rather
>than a forced reload (TCP_MISS) in Squid.
>
>For many versions of IE is has no effect as IE does not tell the cache
>that the user wants to reload the page.. and subsequently the user has
>no means of getting fresh content short of disabling the proxy if the
>cached copy is stale.
>
>Be warned that reload-into-ims is a HTTP protocol violation, and may
>make it impossible to refresh some objects from servers behaving oddly
>(backdated objects with a modification date older than previously served
>objects, or If-Modified-Since not working properly).
>
>--
>Henrik Nordstrom
>Spare time Squid hacker
>
>
>squid@ns2.timenet.net wrote:
>
> > Use IE:
>
> > 2. press reload
> > 932822319.954 0 210.67.226.201 TCP_IMS_HIT/304 192 GET
> http://www.atsai.co.jp/soft/saga/99012901.jpg - NONE/- image/jpeg
>
> > Use Netscape:
> > 2. press reload
> > 932823535.955 1000 210.67.226.201 TCP_REFRESH_HIT/304 343 GET
> http://www.atsai.co.jp/soft/saga/99012901.jpg - DIRECT/210.143.99.90 image/jpeg

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Reuben Farrelly Sunbury, VIC 3429, Australia
Received on Sat Jul 24 1999 - 19:55:02 MDT