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cache.config
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The cache.config file defines how the proxy caches Web objects. You can add caching rules to specify the following configuration:
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Important 
After you modify this file, run content_line -x from the Content Gateway bin directory (/opt/WCG/bin) to apply the changes. When you apply the changes to a node in a cluster, Content Gateway applies the changes to all nodes in the cluster.
Format
Each line in the cache.config file contains a caching rule. Content Gateway recognizes three space-delimited tags:
primary_destination=value secondary_specifier=value action=value
The following table lists the possible primary destinations and their allowed values.
 
Secondary specifiers are optional in the cache.config file. The following table lists the possible secondary specifiers and their allowed values.
 
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The following table lists the possible actions and their allowed values.
 
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never-cache configures the proxy to never cache specified objects.
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ignore-no-cache configures the proxy to ignore all Cache-Control: no-cache headers.
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ignore-client-no-cache configures the proxy to ignore Cache-Control: no-cache headers from client requests.
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ignore-server-no-cache configures the proxy to ignore Cache-Control: no-cache headers from origin server responses.
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d for days (for example 2d)
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h for hours (for example, 10h)
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m for minutes (for example, 5m)
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s for seconds (for example, 20s)
Examples
The following example configures the proxy to never cache FTP documents requested from the IP address 112.12.12.12:
dest_ip=112.12.12.12 scheme=ftp action=never-cache
The following example configures the proxy to keep documents with URLs that contain the regular expression politics and the path prefix/viewpoint in the cache for 12 hours:
url_regex=politics prefix=/viewpoint pin-in-cache=12h
The following example configures the proxy to revalidate gif and jpeg objects in the domain mydomain.com every 6 hours and all other objects in mydomain.com every hour:
dest_domain=mydomain.com suffix=gif revalidate=6h
dest_domain=mydomain.com suffix=jpeg revalidate=6h
dest_domain=mydomain.com revalidate=1h
 
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