[squid-users] refresh_pattern by type mime

[Amos Jeffries]

On 21/08/2015 2:56 a.m., Stakres wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> There is an existing case in the bugzilla
> (http://bugs.squid-cache.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1913) speaking about this
> request and it seems a good idea:
> refresh_pattern by type mime
> 
> It would be very nice and cool to have this feature in squid to define
> different min/max time per mime.
> We could define script/html/css/etc... with a short time,
> images/videos/audio/application/etc... with a long time...
> 
> Squid team, what is your opinion about that ?
> Maybe already in the roadmap for the next 3.5.x build or the 4.x ?
> 

Being tracked as <http://bugs.squid-cache.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1913>. But
not on the roadmap with any priority AFAIK.

My opinion (cant speak for anyone else on this);

It has some useful merit, but the bugs making the algorithm
non-compliant with RFC7234 have higher priority when I look at that area
of the code.

Amos