: I have squid configured as a transparent proxy in front of application server : (ApS). Data generated by ApS gets updated infrequently and sometimes ApS gets : slow doing it's internal "housecleaning". What I want to do is for Squid : to "fudge" response times a bit by timing out connections to ApS after, say : 20s and using cached data instead (even if it's outdated). This would also : help with ApS reboots so that data is available at all times regardless of : responsiveness or availability of ApS. http://www.nabble.com/read_timeout-and--22fwdServerClosed-3A-re-forwarding-22-to13888907.html#a13961255 Summary: not currently possible with 2.6, may work in 2.HEAD Note that if the origin server is "down" (ie: does not accept the connection at all) then 2.6 will return stale content as long as that stale content had a Last-Modified header when it was cached (see cavets in bug#1098 and bug#2119) -Hoss
