[indiana-discuss] OpenSolaris development package repository build 106, x86/x64/SPARC

Shawn Walker swalker at opensolaris.org
Wed Feb 4 09:19:02 PST 2009


Karl Hakimian wrote:
> I found the problem. It had nothing to do with Solaris. We have a web monitoring and proxy appliance that decided to cache the package list. Removing it from the chain allowed the update to work as expected.
> 
> The appliance box is supposed to pay attention to cache policy from the web sites that are visited, I'm wondering if the package site is not setting the headers properly.

In general, most of the depot responses are not cacheable at all.

I'll open a bug to add "Cache-Control: no-cache" to the requests that 
aren't...

Cheers,
-- 
Shawn Walker



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