Re: [squid-users] Multiple Ranged downloads of large files to cache

On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Beyers Cronje wrote:

> Is there a way to configure squid to request multiple ranged download
> instances of a large file(>5MB) on a cache MISS?

Not yet. The Squid cache mechanism is not yet capable of caching partial
files.

> The main idea is to have squid download and cache larger files more
> quickly ? (As what some download managers like Flashget does)

Presonally I hate download managers. HTTP is already very bad to the
Internet, and download managers accelerated this to a disaster level
completely destroying the bandwidth control and fairness of TCP.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Sun Jul 25 2004 - 16:59:31 MDT