On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 09:43:45 -0500, "Sokol, Ryan - 1244" <ryans@xxxxxx> wrote: > Sorry if this has already been answered, but I can't seem to find it under > what I'm searching. > > I have 2 squids set up as reverse proxies and are load balanced for the > URL http://www.domain.com. I am trying to precache certain objects before > my users see them by visiting those URLs (i.e. > http://www.domain.com/object.html). Since the squids are load-balanced, > their caches are not identical. Each squid has a 50% chance of getting > hit. So if I want to ensure that the object is cached for my users, the > cached object has to be on both squids. The only way I can force a > particular squid to be used, is to go to it directly (i.e. > http://squid1.domain.com/object.html & > http://squid2.domain.com/object.html). But when I try this method, the > full URL (including the host and domain) are cached instead of the real > domain my users hit. > > Is there any way to configure squid to only cache the piece after the top > level domain? Definitely not. Relative URLs are not unique. Visit the "/" page from http://example.com/ and imagine what complaints you would get if it appeared instead of your own website "/" page. * There is no requirement for you to send the absolute URL "http://squid1.domain.com/object.html"; to your squid1. You can as easily contact it directly: squidclient -h squid1 http://www.example.com/object.html * Also, pre-caching has a very limited set of uses. Check that you actually need to do this before wasting bandwidth. Amos
