RE: Preventing incomplete file downloads in cache

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian [mailto:signal@shreve.net]
>
> If a user is downloading a file via the web, and going thru squid, and
> then cancels that download before it finishes, will an incomplete file be
> cached by squid? Will squid discard the file completely? Or will squid
> continue to download to complete the file? I would like to tell squid to
> continue to download and complete the file even if the user cancels, is
> this possible?

Sure is - in your squid.conf look for the following lines:

quick_abort_min
quick_abort_max
quick_abort_pct

I personally would use quick_abort_pct - so if a download was over 10%
completed then it'd continue to get the file. There's plenty of
documentation on it.

Regards

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Karl Ferguson
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