Re: [squid-users] big, ugly HTTP Downloads and forwarding

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 00:51:40 +0200

On Wednesday 12 June 2002 20:46, Justin M. Parker wrote:
> I'm using squid as a caching proxy, with a netfilter redirect on
> out going port 80 requests. Is there a way to have squid send back
> pieces of large requests, instead of there being a wait for the
> information to come to the cache, and then a wait for the
> information to be sent back to the requesting client? SQUID sits on
> a NAT/Firewall box running Linux and netfilter. Is it possible to
> do this type of thing from an "object" style approach, or am I way
> off track?

Squid always gives pieces to the user as soon as it is received. It
does not wait for the whole reply before responding.

Squid only waits for the HTTP headers, in order to determine if the
request needs to be retried.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Wed Jun 12 2002 - 16:54:45 MDT

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