Re: [squid-users] Using override-expire and max age

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 5:02 AM, Henrik Nordstrom
<henrik_at_henriknordstrom.net> wrote:
> ons 2009-02-11 klockan 16:03 -0500 skrev Chris DiLorenzo:
>
>> The documentation in squid.conf seems to imply that override-expire
>> allows you cache past the Expire date, not cut it short. Is squid
>> using the max age, or is it ignoring it.
>
> overide-expire can only extend the freshness, not cut it short.
>
> The max age (and percentage) is only used in heuristic freshness
> calculation based on Last-Modified, not when there is an explicit
> freshness set by the origin.
>
> It is not hard to extend Squid to be able to limit freshness to the max
> age even when an explicit freshness is set by the origin.
>
> Regards
> Henrik
>
>

Is there any way (without writing a patch) to cut short how long an
object with an explicit Expire header is cached?
Received on Thu Feb 12 2009 - 15:13:19 MST