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Tyson_James
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Jun 01, 2017

Simple Questions form a Newbie...

1)We want to cache very specific paths on our site, mainly for static content. If we wanted to cache everything under say http://example.com/pdfs, would we just add ‘/pdfs/*’ to the URI Include list?

 

2)If we do this, are we sure that it would NOT be caching http://example.com/ (root path) or even something like http://example.com/foo?

 

3)Is there a way to view cache contents – as in, what files it is actually caching?

 

application delivery
BIG-IP
caching
LTM
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  • Pedro_Haoa's avatar
    Pedro_Haoa
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    Jun 01, 2017

    Hi,

     

    You could use the BIG-IP AAM for an Advanced Dynamic Caching solution. Or you could use BIG-IP LTM RAM Cache for static content.

     

    Some details of BIG-IP LTM RAM Cache

     

    Cacheable content

     

    You can configure the BIG-IP cache feature to cache the following content types:

     

    • 200, 203, 300, 301, and 410 HTTP responses
    • Responses to HTTP GET requests
    • Other HTTP methods for URIs specified for inclusion in cached content, or specified in an iRule
    • Content based on the User-Agent and Accept-Encoding values. The cache feature holds different content for Vary headers.

    Non-cacheable content

     

    The cache feature does not cache the following items:

     

    • Data specified by the following Cache-Control headers: private, no-store, no-cache
    • Action-oriented HTTP methods such as HEAD, PUT, DELETE, TRACE, and CONNECT

    More information:

     

    Understanding RAM Caching

     

    K14903: Overview of the Web Acceleration profile (11.x)

     

    :-)