[squid-users] Squid caching bad objects

[Alex Rousskov]

On 07/06/2017 07:01 PM, Amos Jeffries wrote:

> 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. 

Yes, and the corresponding bug report, with a solution blueprint is at
http://bugs.squid-cache.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4735


> That is being tracked by
> <http://bugs.squid-cache.org/show_bug.cgi?id=424>.

While implementing partial object caching feature would also address
this alleged bug, that implementation requires a lot more work and,
depending on the specifics, the resulting feature may be optional so the
bug fix may still be required anyway.

Alex.