Re: [squid-users] Cookie pass-through in squid

tor 2007-03-08 klockan 16:30 -0600 skrev CHENDRIMADA, POOVAIAH, ATTSI:

> When the Browser sends a request to the server [ thro squid ] along
> With cookies, if the object is already cached by squid [ from an earlier
> request ],
> does squid BLOCK the cookies OR does squid FORWARD the cookies to the
> origin server
> Even though it does not need the object [ since it is in its cache ] ??

Squid responds with the cached response in this case. Origin server
isn't contacted unless it ordered Squid to do so on each request.

> If squid BLOCKS the cookies [ does not let it pass-trough because the
> object
> is cached ] what can I do to make squid let the cookies pass-through to
> the
> origin server ?

See the cache-control HTTP header for how a server can tune cache
behavior.

Regards
Henrik