[jira] Created: (TS-303) plugin idea: - a config option to transform a 'no-cache' directive into a validation 'if-modified-since' request

["Miles Libbey (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

plugin idea: - a config option to transform a 'no-cache' directive into a validation 'if-modified-since' request
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                 Key: TS-303
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TS-303
             Project: Traffic Server
          Issue Type: Improvement
            Reporter: Miles Libbey
            Priority: Minor


(moved from yahoo bug 633221)


Original description
by John Allspaw  4 years ago at 2006-04-17 11:04

This does disobey some of the HTTP specification, but it is a great performance
win when you're totally sure that something hasn't/can't be changed.

Squid has this, and this is ideally how it goes:

"When set, this option would make TrafficServer transform a request with a
no-cache directive into a validation (If-Modified-Since) request.  In other
words, TrafficServer ads an "If-Modified-Since" header to the request before
forwarding it on.  Note that this would only work for objects that have a
Last-Modified timestamp."
		

 
Comment 1
 by Mark Nottingham 4 years ago at 2006-04-17 13:14:30

They other thing you could (optionally, depending on config?) do is to ignore cache-control request 
headers all together. If you're confident of the cache's correctness, this doesn't allow the browser to force 
a round trip back to your origin server (which could be an attack vector).

It really doesn't break HTTP if you're acting as a gateway; they're allowed to do pretty much what they 
want. 

		

 
Comment 2
 by John Allspaw  4 years ago at 2006-04-17 13:20:33

Mark: yeah, TS does already have the option to completely ignore cache-control
headers, confirmed by Leif.  I've generally thought that having the transform
into IMS just adds a slight amount of flexibility than the baby/bathwater if
totally ignoring.  :)

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