-----Original Message----- From: Amos Jeffries [mailto:squid3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2010 7:23 PM > 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. But I only have one site that I'm proxying, so the non-domain part of all URLs cached is exactly the same. http://www.domain.com/object.html is exactly the same as http://squid1.domain.com/object.html. > * 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 Great! Didn't know that tool exists. It is certainly one way to precache. > * Also, pre-caching has a very limited set of uses. Check that you > actually need to do this before wasting bandwidth. My squids sit in front a dynamic imaging server that often takes 10-15 seconds to generate the resulting image. I don't want my customers to have to wait for these images, so I precache for them.