Re: [squid-users] TCP_CLIENT_REFRESH_MISS issue

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 00:47:08 +0100 (CET)

On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Alex Song wrote:

> when using mozilla 1.5 (or 1.2) to download a file, mozilla seems to first
> issue TCP_CLIENT_REFRESH_MISS on the HEAD. this happens when the save as
> dialog box comes up and before the save button is pressed. when squid
> receives this TCP_CLIENT_REFRESH_MISS on the HEAD it RELEASE the whole file
> (not just the head) from the cache (the file was cached from a previous
> download). when save is clicked mozilla sends a normal GET request and squid
> says TCP_MISS (since it RELEASE the file already) and the file is fetched
> from the origin server and stored in the cache once again.

If you enable log_mime_hdrs and post the two requests (HEAD + GET) then we
will get a much clearer picture of what is going on.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Fri Nov 14 2003 - 16:47:20 MST

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