Re: [squid-users] Why so many 304 resposne for MSIE ?

howard chen wrote:
> Why so many 304 resposne for MSIE ?
>
> I am serving a static JS file, with Squid as reverse proxy to my
> Apache 1.x, which has the following response to the client:
>
> =================
>
> Status=OK - 200
> Last-Modified=Thu, 11 Oct 2007 05:04:34 GMT
> Accept-Ranges=bytes
> Content-Length=27157
> Content-Type=application/x-javascript
> Date=Tue, 20 Jan 2009 02:36:50 GMT
> Expires=Fri, 30 Jan 2009 02:36:50 GMT
> Cache-Control=max-age=864000
> Age=14
> X-Cache=HIT from webcache-1.example.com
> Connection=keep-alive
>
>
> =================
>
> You see expire is set to 10 years from now, so I will expect only a
> very little of 304 (only user press F5 to reload)
>
> However, by tracing the squid log, I found
>
>
> The number of reqs of 200 vs 304 on IE:
>
> 17785 (200)
> 12465 (304)
>
> The number of reqs of 200 vs 304 on FF:
>
> 6507 (200)
> 333 (304)
>
> You see? Why so many 304 resposne for MSIE ?
>
>
> Any idea?
>
> Thanks.

You'll most likely have to Ask Microsoft for that answer.

Could be IE users hitting a bug in their GUI, and having to refresh the
page manually.

Amos

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