Re: FTP cacheing doesn't seem to work on squid-2.2.STABLE4-8

Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
>
> Stephen Moore wrote:
>
> ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest/mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz
> >
> > 942187798.824 SWAPOUT 0001395C 200 942187447 936768133 -1
> > text/html 4185/4185 GET http://www.standards.com.au/information-sheets/
> > [root@squid squid]#
> >
> > How come this doesn't cache?
>
> Perhaps the FTP server does not support querying for the modification
> time.
>
> Have you enabled the recommended refresh_pattern settings for FTP
> caching? Without them FTP listings or FTP objects from servers not
> supporting MDTM will not be cached. See you squid.conf. (probably
> /etc/squid/squid.conf as the version number you indicated looks like an
> RPM version number or something.. there is no -8 numbering in Squid
> versions)

I believe that the site does not, in fact, support MDTM. It _does_
support NEWER and MINFO, but I'm not sure of the standards basis of
those.

D
Received on Wed Nov 10 1999 - 20:23:22 MST