[squid-users] squid-avira-update-cache

[Amos Jeffries]

On 21/02/2017 10:00 p.m., FLASH FLASH wrote:
> this is part of my cache.log:
> 
> 2017/02/21 10:54:47.908 kid1| 11,2| http.cc(2221) sendRequest: HTTP Server
> REQUEST:
> ---------
> GET /update/repair_sigver/1.0.25.18/win32/int/repair.rdf.lz HTTP/1.1
> Host: personal.avira-update.com
> User-Agent: @AUVI at 1.3;AntiVir-NGUpd/15.0.24.143 (PERS; WKS; EN; AVE
> 8.3.42.182; VDF 8.12.155.244; Windows 10 Enterprise; ; Bulgaria;
> 4e083d762df61e49122f00e3758c65355687472f; 0000149996-AVHOE-0000001; BG;
> BUILD 15.0.24.146; 0; 1; 1; iexplore; 1;
> 309afc5503fe48febffe89e27e9390322a9f97f2; 0)
> Accept: */*
> Via: 1.1 router2 (squid/3.5.10)
> X-Forwarded-For: ...
> Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate

There we go, the AV updater client (or maybe that 'router2' proxy?)
forbids cached content to be delivered as a response AND the response to
this request from being cached.

Which is kind of annoying since the server indicates the reply is
actually cacheable for at least a few minutes and HTTP/1.1 revalidation
performance features are supported. :-(

If router2 is under your control you could optimize a bit by erasing
that Cache-Control header from the AV updaters request before they are
sent on to the current Squid.

Amos