A 503 page gets written to my proxy cache, overwriting the 200

[rge3]

Maxim Dounin Wrote:

> The "proxy_cache_valid" directives are used if there are no 
> Cache-Control/Expires to allow caching (or they are ignored with 
> proxy_ignore_headers).  That is, with "proxy_cache_valid" you can 
> cache something which isn't normally cached, but they don't 
> prevent caching of other responses.

That was my missing piece.  Thanks so much!!  Now it makes sense!

-R

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