[squid-users] How long this object should be left in the cache?

Amos Jeffries squid3 at treenet.co.nz
Tue Jul 4 02:22:46 UTC 2017


On 04/07/17 02:45, Eliezer Croitoru wrote:
> Hey Amos,
> 
>  From what I remember there is an object for HEAD and GET responses.
> I am talking only about the HEAD one.
> Are you saying that there is no HEAD caching at all? Or that it depends on the GET one?
>

I'm not completely sure, but IIRC the HEAD response being expired 
already makes it not worth caching. Since in order to reply to even 
another HEAD request Squid would have to revalidate / fetch new headers.

Amos


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