Re: [squid-users] Denying write access to the cache

Guillaume Smet wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We're using Squid as a reverse proxy for a couple of years now. We're
> currently migrating to Squid 2.6 and we're really satisfied of all the
> enhancements of this version, especially the fact that we can use a
> lot of features previously reserved to the proxy configuration.
>
> Our context is a bit special :
> - we have _a lot_ of traffic generated by robots (googlebot and so on) ;
> - the problem is that they visit a lot of pages on our site we don't
> really want to keep in cache (nobody else really visits them - for
> instance, the events in a very small city) ;
> - we want the robots to use the cache generated by the other users so
> we can't simply deny cache access to robots.
>
> After this introduction, here is my question: is there any way to deny
> the write access to the cache? I'd like to be able to say: all these
> user agents can use the cache but don't write anything in it.
> I don't find anything to do this sort of things.
>
> Thanks for any ideas.
>
> --
> Guillaume

Looks like a case for something like this that prevents the group
'robots' from retrieving data not already in the cache:

acl robots <....>
always_direct deny robots

Still, I would pose you a question:
   if people find and visit your page by going to a search engine how
can they find useful pages that nobody else has visited recently??

Amos
Received on Fri Mar 23 2007 - 08:56:33 MDT