Words by Henrik Nordstrom [Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 12:17:02PM +0100]: > lör 2006-03-11 klockan 01:29 +0000 skrev Jose Celestino: > > Had a problem similar to http://www.squid-cache.org/mail-archive/squid-users/200501/0278.html > > that is: to be able to ignore the suffix of the URI for caching and retrieving > > purposes. > > > > For example imagine you have the following URI request: > > > > /mybanners/468x60N/lrec-pink3.swf?clicktag=http%3A//bverv.pt/event/Tffggfdf86%2C93%2C101%2C110%2C150%2C182%2C204%2C2674%2C2675%2C2679%2C3493%2C3671%2C3824%2C3854%2C4228%2C4252%2C6199%2C6363%2C6548%2C6650%2C6701%2C6824%2C6883%2C6884%2C6897%2C6971%2C7308%2C7309%2C73186%2C93%2C101%2C110%2C150%2C182%2C204%2C2674%2C2675%2C2679%2C3493%2C3671%2C3824%2C3854%2C4228%2C4252%2C6199%2C6363%2C6548%2C6650%2C6701%2C6824%2C6883%2C6884%2C6897%2C6971%2C7308%2C7309%2C731 > > > > In a not uncommon scenario files like these are served by a squid proxy. > > Correct. > > > And there's, of course, no server side use for that mumbo-jumbo. > > Incorrect. It's used for statistical and kickback reasons.. but doing so > on relatively large shockwave files is plain stupid if you ask me.. > Not on swf, js, or other client-side processed files. The http server accelerated by squid does no processing whatsoever, no php, no mod_perl. > > But you either end not caching it or caching useless, always diferent, objects. > > These are normally not cached by Squid thanks to the ? > True. > > The solution would be to discard everything after (and including) the 1st '?'. > > very very many sites query parameters are used to select which > page/image/file etc to display. > > The correct approach would be to send the webmasters of sites using such > links to read http://www.mnot.net/cache_docs/ > > If you really want to do someting like this then it is best done via the > redirector interface. You should only do it when you know for 110% > certain that it is OK, which means a quite detailed ruleset with > per-site rules and what junk should be stripped away from those URLs. > Perhaps you didn't understand that these are our sites, squid is acting as an accelerator. So we know with 200% certainty what we want to clean. That's the only scenaria I find this of use. -- Jose Celestino | http://xpto.org/~japc/files/japc-pgpkey.asc ---------------------------------------------------------------- "You just have to accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent
