Re: [squid-users] squid + axel

On Sunday 10 August 2003 9:05 pm, Bob Arctor wrote:

> axel is an download 'accelerator'
> originally it splits file to parts (equal) , opens local file , and
> download it.

Pardon my ignorance, but how does this accelerate anything?

What sort of bottleneck (where) between server and client does axel overcome?

Antony.

> On Sunday 10 August 2003 21:34, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> > On Sunday 10 August 2003 20.39, Bob Arctor wrote:
> > > i tried to modify axel.c to make it work as an cgi-bin script ,
> > > and with squid rewriting url to point it to cgi-bin script, but
> > > after a while of hacking i concluded it is pointless.
> >
> > What is axel?
> >
> > Regards
> > Henrik

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