On Sun, 1 Aug 2010 11:52:13 -0400, david robertson <dr@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 1:12 AM, Amos Jeffries <squid3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> If stampeeding is a worry the stale-if-error and stale-while-revalidate >> Cache-Control: options would also be useful (sent from the origin web >> server). These are supported by 2.7. > > Question - why aren't these options documented anywhere? Also, why > can't we set this in squid itself, rather than messing with > Cache-Control headers? because they are not squid configuration options. They are HTTP/1.1 protocol options for improving cacheability: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-nottingham-http-stale-while-revalidate-01 http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-nottingham-http-stale-if-error-01 (I'm Amos
