[KLUG Members] Squid "no_cache"

[Mike Morrett]

On 21 Jan 2003 10:28:13 -0500, "Bruce Smith" <bruce@armintl.com> said:
> > > > How do I *not* cache certain sites, for example the whole family uses Web
> > > > based Email: http://www.fastmail.fm or http://www.mail.lycos.com
> > > 
> > > Why?  It would seem like those are the sites you DO want to cache, so
> > > everyone can share the same cache and improve your internet speed.
> > 
> > I don't think links like this should be cached...
> > 
> > http://www.fastmail.fm/mail2/~ad20xs4dabcv18f0ttgbcd65jj244432211155789/?MLS=MR-@0,3857,;SMB-MF-SF=4_1;SMR-Part=;SMR-MsgId=3857;SMR-FM=1;SMB-CF=119494;MSignal=MR-DelMsg@0,3856
> > 
> > This is an *actual* Email to me.
> 
> IF squid caches likes like that), it wouldn't waste much disk space, and
> it wouldn't hurt anything since the session ID is in the URL, and won't
> be duplicated among other users.
> 
> By not caching the entire site, you're losing out on caching the
> graphics files that go on the web pages.  Those could save a lot of
> internet bandwidth by sharing the graphics on your home network.

Dang, you sure are hard to convince! :-)))))

OK, I'll try a different "attack"...

User1 on PC1 is reading an Email about super secret thingy1...  
http://www.fastmail.fm/mail2/~aaaaaaaaaaa....

User2 on PC2 is reading an Email about super secret thingy2...  
http://www.fastmail.fm/mail2/~bbbbbbbbbbb....

User3 is a part-time admin person I have manage my IPCop box (he/she has
the Admin password).

User3 is pissed at me for asking he/she too many damn questions!

So, User3 logs into the IPCop box and proceeds to read User1's and
User2's secret Emails.

And, User3 learns about some secret "TheBS" thing trying to conquer the
world!

So there!!

Later,
Mike
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