Hello, Please excuse the newbie. I checked most of the search engines on squid pages and could not find what I was looking for. Though it may be because I did not use the correct keywords. So we have a large set of squid boxes sitting in front of some slow running code. The data is mostly static, so we use squid as a proxy and it caches the data. The TTL on the cache for now is 1 week or more, and so we are saving the backend/origin from being pounded and love it!!! However, we are seeing a large number of near-hit instead of pure hits. For us a near-hit is equal to a miss, because it caches the cache (L1 and L2) to go to the origin/backend. We are using HTCP to clear the cache when there is a change (much like wikipedia does), so we can trust that our L2 is as close to fresh as possible. So: 1) Since we can guarantee that the L2 will have the latest information, is there a way to ignore the "if-not-modified" header? 2) is there a way to declare the L2 cache as the origin-server instead of just a parent cache - not a great approach, but need to mitigate going to the origin if the L2 has a hit? 3) is there a utility to update the timestamp of the cached objects. Thanks, David
