Max-age=0 from Proxy only

Eliezer Croitoru eliezer at ngtech.co.il
Tue May 8 21:17:56 UTC 2012


On 09/05/2012 00:07, Justin Dorfman wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> What is the best way to cache a file from an origin to a proxy server
> (nginx) with a long max-age then change the max-age to 0 when the file
> is being downloaded from the Proxy.
>
> If that is confusing hopefully this illustration will explain it better:
> http://i.imgur.com/BakMD.png
cache is not ment to be cached forever.
i think that you might can use an if statement that will make a 
"location" decision by the source ip or some header.

in most of the proxies you can override the max-age by acls.

Eliezer

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>
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>
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