Re: [squid-users] Reverse Proxy Cache ONLY Relative URL

you may configure the two squids as siblings behind the loadbalancer
to eliminate the need to pre-cache on both squids.

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Sokol, Ryan - 1244 <ryans_at_ha.com> wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Amos Jeffries [mailto:squid3_at_treenet.co.nz]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2010 7:23 PM
>> Definitely not. Relative URLs are not unique. Visit the "/" page from
>> http://example.com/ and imagine what complaints you would get if it
>> appeared instead of your own website "/" page.
>
> But I only have one site that I'm proxying, so the non-domain part of all URLs cached is exactly the same.  http://www.domain.com/object.html is exactly the same as http://squid1.domain.com/object.html.
>
>> * There is no requirement for you to send the absolute URL
>> "http://squid1.domain.com/object.html" to your squid1. You can as easily
>> contact it directly:
>>  squidclient -h squid1 http://www.example.com/object.html
>
> Great!  Didn't know that tool exists.  It is certainly one way to precache.
>
>> * Also, pre-caching has a very limited set of uses. Check that you
>> actually need to do this before wasting bandwidth.
>
> My squids sit in front a dynamic imaging server that often takes 10-15 seconds to generate the resulting image.  I don't want my customers to have to wait for these images, so I precache for them.
>
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Received on Thu Oct 28 2010 - 15:49:30 MDT