>I'm experimenting with 2 Squid 3.1.3 instances in reverse proxy mode. >They are configured to be peers of each other using ICP. I'm not using >digests. When a cached resource has not yet expired, each instance will >successfully contact the other to retrieve the resource. However, when >the resource is expired, no attempt is made to contact the peer. I'm >trying to determine if that behavior can be changed. >My question is, is there a way to configure Squid so that it will >contact its peers when asked for an expired resource? I'm interested in >doing this to reduce the number of requests that make their way to the >backend servers. If a peer has a fresh copy, I'd like that one to be >used instead of sending the request to the backend. >From the lack of responses, I'm guessing this isn't a commonly asked question. Would anyone be able direct me to a location in the Squid source code where I could try to find this myself? Or perhaps if there is documentation on this that I missed I'd appreciate that as well. Thanks, Paul
