[squid-users] Host header forgery policy in service provider environment

Amos Jeffries squid3 at treenet.co.nz
Thu Dec 31 08:31:53 UTC 2015


On 2015-12-31 00:01, Garri Djavadyan wrote:
> Hello Squid members and developers!
> 
> First of all, I wish you a Happy New Year 2016!
> 
> The current Host header forgery policy effectively prevents a cache
> poisoning. But also, I noticed, it deletes verified earlier cached
> object. Is it possible to implement more careful algorithm as an
> option? For example, if Squid will not delete earlier successfully
> verified and valid cached object and serve forged request from the
> cache if would be more effective and in same time secure behavior.


This seems to be describing 
<http://bugs.squid-cache.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3940>

So far we don't have a solution. Patches very welcome.

Amos



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