[squid-users] Caching http google deb files

[Alex Rousskov]

On 10/06/2016 11:14 AM, Linda A. Walsh wrote:
> Alex Rousskov wrote:
>> We can, but ignoring Vary requires more/different work than adding
>> another refresh_pattern option. Vary is not a refresh mechanism so
>> different code areas need to be modified to ignore (but still forward!)
>> Vary.


>    I can't say for certain, but I'd give it a 75% shot of it being
> used as a forced-refresh pattern

The [ab]use cases do not matter here -- the _code_ handling Vary is very
different from the code handling refresh logic. That difference is
natural and unavoidable because the two protocol mechanisms are very
different, even if they both can be and are used to create the same effect.

Alex.