Re: querystring part of cache key

On Fri, May 22, 2009, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Adrian Chadd wrote:
> > .. Squid just caches based on the URL (with relevant rules controlling
> > whether the URL can be cached or not.)
> 
> I think there was a time when you had to avoid '?' in a URL because
> caches wouldn't cache anything with it.

Heh. I think squid may still treat ?'s as uncachable for that reason.

In fact, plenty of origins are returning cachable info for non-normalised
query strings and this has an impact on the working size and churn of the
cache.



Adrian