Re: [squid-users] Large Files and Reverse proxy

On fre, 2008-08-29 at 14:08 +0100, Simon Waters wrote:

> I don't care if Squid does a refresh query for an 8MB object, indeed I'm happy
> for it to check freshness every time such an object is fetched if needed to
> comply with HTTP RFCs, I was just concerned that Squid is fetching the whole
> 8MB file many times a day.

Do the object have a useable cache validator (Last-Modifie / ETag) and
does the web server respond properly on cache validation requests
(If-Modified-Since / If-None-Match)?

Regards
Henrik