I have reverted to the default squid.conf and I am getting the same as when I first installed Squid. It runs without error but fails to serve cached objects. The access log reports TCP_REFRESH_MISS/200. How can the objects be STALE half a minute after being refreshed from the origin server? ver 2.5.STABLE3-20030628 for i386-pc-os2-emx ------------------------------------------------------------- When the server doesn't provide any freshness info for the object. Check with : http://www.ircache.net/cgi-bin/cacheability.py --------------------------------------------------------------- I did that. O'Reilly's Definitive Guide to HTML and XHTML has no reference in the index for either Expires or Cache-control, so why would any web page contain such information? It looks like Squid will fail to serve most web pages. Is this a correct interpretation? Is there a workaround?