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Refreshes



ip/proxy/refreshes

Type: Settings Directory

Counters of the cached objects the proxy revalidated with the server before it answered the client. To revalidate an object, the proxy sends a conditional request with If-Modified-Since or If-None-Match. Each counter counts one reason. For an overview of caching, see Web Proxy.

<ArgTableRow arg="url-requests" typ="num">Objects whose URL has a query string. The proxy revalidates them on every request.</ArgTableRow> <ArgTableRow arg="request-max-age" typ="num"></ArgTableRow> <ArgTableRow arg="expired" typ="num"></ArgTableRow> <ArgTableRow arg="response-max-age" typ="num"></ArgTableRow> <ArgTableRow arg="config-max-fresh" typ="num"></ArgTableRow> <ArgTableRow arg="heuristic" typ="num"></ArgTableRow> <ArgTableRow arg="other" typ="num">Other reasons, for example an object that has an ETag header but no Last-Modified header.</ArgTableRow>

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Updated 2026-10-01.