Re: IMS replies

I think implementing this would fall out as a freebie if we turn the headers into metadata rather than part of the datastream.

Rob

----- Original Message -----
From: "Henrik Nordstrom" <hno@safecore.se>
To: <squid-dev@squid-cache.org>
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 6:32 AM
Subject: IMS replies

> I think there is many bugs/misfeatures in how we handle IMS replies to
> refreshes.
>
> a) The new headers are never reflected back to the client. This is
> especially a problem due to the Date header. Not updating the Date
> header will upset age calculation in downstream caches badly, but there
> might be other headers which should be updated as well.
>
> b) New headers are stored in the memory object, but it seems there is no
> pruning of old headers, or at least the array where the headers are
> stored keeps on growing for each received reply, and the array item
> counts gets very large.
>
> c) The new headers are never stored on disk.
>
> Ideas are welcome on how to handle the object headers on refreshes, but
> until we have found a way I think the in-memory header update should be
> disabled to at least not waste memory on not doing it correctly......
>
> /Henrik
>
>
Received on Thu Jan 18 2001 - 12:42:04 MST