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Set the following Aging Rules to determine the duration of cached Web content on the service
platform:

Click OK button to save the aging rule configuration. Click the Reset button to revert to the last
saved configuration.

URL Lists

URL Lists are used to select highly utilized URLs for smart caching. The selected URLs are
monitored and routed according to existing cache content policies.

To configure a URL Lists policy:

1. Select Configuration tab from the main menu.

2. Select the Services tab from the Configuration menu.

The upper, left-hand, side of the user interface displays a Services menu pane where
Captive Portal, DHCP Server Policy, RADIUS and Smart Caching configuration options can
be selected.

3. Select Smart Caching.

4. Expand the Smart Caching menu item and select URL Lists.

The URL Lists screen displays existing policies. New policies can be created, existing
policies can be modified, deleted or copied.

Precedence

Set the order HTTP access rules are applied. The available range is from 1 - 100.

URL Regex

Set the regular expressions used to match a part of a requested URL, including the transfer protocol
and origin server hostname.

Case Sensitive

Select this option to enable case sensitivity for the URL regex. When disabled, case sensitivity is
ignored.The default is disabled.

Minimum Age

Set the time an object without an explicit expiry time is considered fresh. A response cannot be stale
unless its time in the cache exceeds the minimum value.

Maximum Age

Set the maximum period (as an upper limit) on how long objects without an explicit expiry time are
considered fresh. A response cannot be fresh unless the period in the cache is less than the maximum
time.

Freshness Factor

Set the percentage of compliance for the freshness factor algorithm for responses between the
minimum and maximum age. The available range is from 1 - 100%. The default is 100%

Override Options

Select Enforce minimum age even if the server sent an explicit expiry time to override the expiry sent by
the server and use the configured minimum age value.
Select Enforce minimum age even on objects that were modified recently to force the minimum age
period on recently modified cached content.
Select Change client no-cache or reload to If-Modified-Since requests if you expect numerous Web
content requests from cache.