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Author Re: Cache-Control: max-age sent by apt might delay installation of security updates
Marc Haber

2004-02-28, 5:33 pm

On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 08:55:02 +1100, Robert Collins
<robertc@robertcollins.net> wrote:
>On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 07:10, Marc Haber wrote:
>
>Thats incorrect. max-age tells squid it MUST revalidate entities with an
>age >=3D the max-age value. If squid considers an entity stale it will
>revalidate it regardless - and your local squid config can tune when
>this occurs.


Unfortunately, squid and me share a mutual dislike. How can I tune
this behavior?

Practice shows that a squid installed from a Debian package frequently
doesn't even send out a request to the original server.

Greetings
Marc

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Marc Haber

2004-02-29, 4:33 am

On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 09:38:26 +1100, Robert Collins
<robertc@robertcollins.net> wrote:
>What I suggest is that for security.debian.org, use max-age=3D0. For =

other
>sites, use max-age=3D3600.


Since that is not currently possible, I will set max-age=3D0 on my
machines, so that older apts will behave like the current unstable
versions.

Thanks for the clarification, I really appreciate that.

Greetings
Marc

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