the basic test that result in: 1375097944.775 551 127.0.0.1 TCP_REFRESH_UNMODIFIED/304 355 GET http://www.squid-cache.org/Images/img7.gif - HIER_DIRECT/209.169.10.131 - 1375097950.082 763 127.0.0.1 TCP_CLIENT_REFRESH_MISS/200 10345 GET http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v3/3.4/ - HIER_DIRECT/209.169.10.131 text/html Shows that the client did an active refresh. All the above is without refresh_patterns at all. Also works on youtube images and other stuff pretty nice.. Youtube videos are pretty large and for me it seems like a weird thing to cache in a cache since they have servers all over the globe doing cache helping the clients view the video nicely.. 1375098872.573 72 127.0.0.1 TCP_REFRESH_UNMODIFIED/304 212 GET http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/HbjUK7i84YQ/default.jpg - HIER_DIRECT/212.199.219.236 - 1375098872.944 0 127.0.0.1 TCP_MEM_HIT/200 628 GET http://r5---sn-nhpax-ua8e.c.youtube.com/crossdomain.xml - HIER_NONE/- text/x-cross-domain-policy 1375098873.084 141 127.0.0.1 TCP_MISS/204 424 GET http://s.youtube.com/stream_204? - HIER_DIRECT/212.199.205.241 text/html Eliezer