[squid-users] When the redirect [301, 302, 307] is cached by Squid?

[Amos Jeffries]

On 21/09/17 22:16, kAja Ziegler wrote:
>     Thats what the "must-revalidate" means. It should work better with
>     just max-age or Expires header - and with a longer value than 60 sec
>     since this is supposed to be a *permanent* situation.
> 
> 
> As I know "must-revalidate" mean "refuse to return stale responses to 
> the user even if they say that stale responses are acceptable" - cached 
> object must be revalidated.
> 
> Max-age=60 was only used for testing.
> 
> The results of my testing:
> 
> - redirect 302 or 307 - to be cached needs Cache-Control max-age > 0 or 
> Expires "access plus 1 seconds"
> - redirect 301 - to be cached needs Cache-Control max-age > 60 or 
> Expires "access plus 61 seconds"
> 

There is no >60 need on the 301. Just me suggesting that 60sec is too 
short caching time for a _permanent_ thing.

> This is strange because I thought that 301 is always cached without 
> Cache-Control or Expires headers. And I can't find any information in 
> the documentation which describes such behaviour.

It should be, so long as it is fresh so that means it does depend on 
refresh_pattern saying it is fresh when no controls are present.

Amos