[squid-users] Squid caching bad objects

[Amos Jeffries]

On 07/07/17 03:41, Razor Cross wrote:
> Hi Amos,
> Do you have any insights on the below issue? Is it fixed on latest squid 
> release?  Your inputs would be really helpful
>

If that means you consider me Squid "owner" or official spokesperson. 
Well, I am one such, but so is Alex. If it helps 
<http://wiki.squid-cache.org/WhoWeAre> lists the people most central to 
Squid Project and what their roles are. I defer to Alex most of the time 
when it comes to the internal cache/store operations since his Factory 
team have done the most recent and extensive redesign work for that code.


As to the problem;

AFAIK Squid currently should not be caching these objects at all. Or 
when it does use the disk cache as a temporary storage (eg for very 
large objects) marking them for immediate discard when the abort 
happens. That is being tracked by 
<http://bugs.squid-cache.org/show_bug.cgi?id=424>.

If that situation has changed and these objects are now being stored 
incorrectly, that would be a new bug which is both a regression on the 
old safe cache behaviour and blocking the 424 bug. I second Alexs' comments.


Amos