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Re: Squid




On Mon, 9 Sep 1996, Ira Abramov wrote:

> > IRA: non cached objects may be an instruction not to cache using robots.txt
> 
> I don't care about the caching! even the PROXY isn't working! it just gets
> stuck and gives up on a timeout when I direct it at home.netscape.com, no
> problem with www.netscape.com, though.

robots.txt got nothing to do with caching, only with 'web spiders'. a
proxy never checkes for robots.txt unless the one who wrote it didn't
understand its purpose, or unless it's a "predictive proxy" (the only one
i saw till now was a bad japanese implementation).

now, what happens if you try to directly access te site (i assume you
tried and it worked). if this is the case, you may try to assume it's a
squid bug (note - squid is beta, maybe this is one of the reasons why).
you can try to strace the squid process (it doesn't fork, right? so should
be easy to strace) and see when it gets stuck - after sending its headers?
before? if after - try to send the exact same headers by raw telneting to
the www server and see what happens.

anyway, this seems to belong to the squid maintainers list, not here.

guy


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