[squid-users] Never expire any object Squid configuration

[Veiko Kukk]

On 20/04/16 13:07, Amos Jeffries wrote:
> On 20/04/2016 7:24 p.m., Veiko Kukk wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> We have a Squid between our server application and openstack swift
>> backend in accel/reverse mode with store-id configuraton (to strip
>> temporary authentication URL-s). We want that any object that has been
>> stored in squid cache is never again fetched from source and never again
>> checked if it is fresh. Well, never in this case could be one year.
>
> The usual resonse to this is "Squid is a cache, not an archive".

I turned out, what we need was offline_mode on.
http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v3/3.5/cfgman/offline_mode.html

Best regards,
Veiko