Re: [squid-users] data cached with an external helper

Thanks Henrik.

  is there a special cache per external helper? per instance of this
helper? Or all of this appends in the main cache of squid (so the result
would be associated to a page)?

Ghislain Garcon

Henrik Nordstrom a écrit :
> On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Ghis wrote:
>
>> Documentation mention that results of an external Acl like that are
>> cached. Is the result attached to the page? To the ip source? Both? Is
>> "my_argument" cached?
>
>
> It's cached per the expanded format string specified in
> external_acl_type plus any additional data supplied by the acl
> directive. To be exact it is the query to the helper that is cached.
>
> In your case by source IP + my_argument.
>
>
> There is a low-priority project to allow additional data to be sent to
> the helpers not neccesarily part of the cache key but this is not quite
> yet in place (the initial selected design did not work out too well in
> how the cache key could be determined). For details on this see
> devel.squid-cache.org.
>
> Regards
> Henrik
>
Received on Thu Oct 27 2005 - 01:01:35 MDT