Re: Magic Markers and MD5

From: Oskar Pearson <oskar@dont-contact.us>
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 14:31:01 +0200 (GMT)

Duane Wessels wrote:

> My idea was that if the client could be identified as another Squid
> cache from the request, then the reply header would include something
> like this:
>
> X-End-Of-Transfer-Marker: XXXXX
>
> Then of course that sequence of bytes would be appended at the
> end of the object. If the client Squid didn't see the marker,
> the object would be purged.

This adds the extra overhead of scanning through the actual data
being transferred. Try do this at 100mb/s.... (ie a ftp from a
local ftp site that floods the link)

If you use OOB data it would mean that (afaik) the kernel would notify you
that the data is OOB....

        Oskar
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