Re: squid's behavior when using wget to ftp a site?

arnee wrote:

> QUESTIONS:
> Is squid the one that closes the connection after fetching one file? or
> wget? if the former, is this squid's regular behavior? and how to
> reconfigure it?

Squid has no cache for FTP server connections. Each time an FTP object
is retreived Squid has to open a new connection to the FTP server.

The technical reason to this is the protocol translation from HTTP to
FTP when sending the request thru a HTTP proxy which looses most of the
state a full FTP client can keep about the connection.

I have planned for quite some time to implement a pool for FTP server
connections like what we have for persistent HTTP connections, but have
not yet found any time to do it. It is a bit more complicated in the
case of FTP as the FTP protocol is much more stateful than HTTP (which
is stateless).

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Henrik Nordstrom
Squid hacker