Re: FTP with IE 3.01 and Squid :-)

On Tue, 17 Dec 1996, Duane Wessels wrote:

> sbohsali@cyberia.net.lb writes:
>
> >Is anybody using IE 3.01 with the proxy configured? HTTP works fine, =
> >however FTP stops at the first Kilobyte of the file!
> >Someone suggested to set "quick_abort off". It works, however this is =
> >too expensive in terms of Internet bandwidth. Is there a fix for this?
>
> I fail to understand how the quick_abort setting can affect this.
> Quick abort shouldn't be a factor until *after* the client has closed
> the connection, thereby aborting the request.
>

Its not a general problem, we're using Squid 1.1.1 (under Linux 2.0.27)
with IE 3.01 (NT & '95), we have:

quick_abort 50 90 200

and haven't seen any FTP problems.

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