[squid-users] vary headers

Hussam Al-Tayeb hussam.tayeb at gmx.com
Mon May 4 15:15:25 UTC 2015



> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2015 at 12:49 PM
> From: "Amos Jeffries" <squid3 at treenet.co.nz>
> To: squid-users at lists.squid-cache.org
> Subject: Re: [squid-users] vary headers
>
> On 4/05/2015 6:54 a.m., Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote:
> >> Sent: Sunday, May 03, 2015 at 9:45 PM
> >> From: "Yuri Voinov"
> > 
> >> 
> >> I understand what do your want. But for what?
> >>> 
> > 
> > because a "wget --server-response http://someurl" operation that
> > replies with a "Vary: user-agent" header always results in a MISS
> > even if the same wget version (same user-agent) and computer.
> > Instead, multiple copies of the file are stored.
> 
> That is not right, the wget being used twice should be MISS then HIT,
> just like any oter cacheable traffic.
> 
> The nasty thing with Vary:User-Agent is that browsers UA string embeds
> so much plugin info they are changing between each different client
> request. Which defeats the purpose of caching one clients reply for use
> by other clients.
> 
> NP: what you had with the store_miss should be working.
>  Are you using Squid-3.5 ?
>  How are you identifying a fail ?
> 
> Amos
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Hello. I am using 3.5.4
There are new objects on disk that have the Vary: User-Agent Http header.
I can tell for example if type head -n13 /home/squid/04/D1/0004D122


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