On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 5:02 AM, Henrik Nordstrom <henrik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > ons 2009-02-11 klockan 16:03 -0500 skrev Chris DiLorenzo: > >> The documentation in squid.conf seems to imply that override-expire >> allows you cache past the Expire date, not cut it short. Is squid >> using the max age, or is it ignoring it. > > overide-expire can only extend the freshness, not cut it short. > > The max age (and percentage) is only used in heuristic freshness > calculation based on Last-Modified, not when there is an explicit > freshness set by the origin. > > It is not hard to extend Squid to be able to limit freshness to the max > age even when an explicit freshness is set by the origin. > > Regards > Henrik > > Is there any way (without writing a patch) to cut short how long an object with an explicit Expire header is cached?
