RE: Joining squid-dev List

Thank you Amos. Currently the new option can be set globally. I can see
some advantages of having it set on cache_peer per-peer basis - do you
think that would be better option for this patch? I can look into
changing it, shouldn't take much more effort...

Thanks again,
-Senad

-----Original Message-----
From: Amos Jeffries [mailto:squid3_at_treenet.co.nz]
Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2010 6:09 AM
To: squid-dev_at_squid-cache.org
Subject: Re: Joining squid-dev List

senad.cimic_at_thomsonreuters.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm following directions at
> http://www.squid-cache.org/Support/mailing-lists.dyn in joining this
> list... My main motivation is to submit a patch for the minor changes
I
> made to the squid source described below:
>
> We're in the process of implementing squid 3.1.1 version for reverse
> proxying. The issue we ran into is related to running a cluster of
> Squids in sibling mode. Problem was that for stale (cached but
expired)
> resources Squids always go to the backend servers to verify freshness
> instead of contacting their sibling Squids (this was the case for ICP,
> HTCP, and cache digests).
>
> Changes I made include adding new squid.conf directive (on|off option)
> that makes this behavior configurable. By default, it will behave as
it
> is in current Squid version, but if turned on it will verify freshness
> of stale resources with its siblings (ICP, HTCP, and cache digests)
> prior to contacting backend servers.
>
> I will work on re-formatting changed code to match Squid3 coding
> standards and will afterwards follow the process to submit patch
> request.
>
> Thanks,
> Senad

Greetings and Welcome Senad,

  I look forward to seeing the patch when it comes through. Are you
looking at an option that can be set on cache_peer per-peer? or
globally?

FYI, Some administrative details to be aware of:

  There is about 2 months to go before 3.2 goes into beta. I'm hoping
for July 1st, depending on the SMP project work. Config file features
should aim to be done and approved by that point.

  3.1 is officially closed to new features etc., though private patches
are always a possibility.

Amos

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