RE: [squid-users] Browser sessions per IP

From: Kinkie <kinkie-squid@dont-contact.us>
Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 22:29:54 +0200

On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 13:00 -0500, Eduardo Bejar wrote:
> Hi,
>
> >>http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ-10.html#ss10.22
>
> What does this exactly limits? Squid FAQs says "number of connections"; a
> message in the archive says that it limits "concurrent requests"; so if I
> write
>
> acl client1 192.168.1.50/255.255.255.255
> acl fiveconns maxconn 5
> http_access deny fiveconns client1
>
> What does "maxconn 5" limits? Browser sessions to 5? Simultaneous downloaded
> files to 5? Number of terminals using that IP to 5?

Simultaneous TCP connections.

There is _no_ way at the proxy level (or at any level but the client OS
level) to detect the number of browser sessions. HTTP is sessionless,
and that is a basic design principle. The only way a server (proxy or
web) could know how many sessions the user is running would be if the
browser had some explicit hints, and as far as I know no browser offers
such hints.

        Kinkie
Received on Tue Jul 05 2005 - 14:29:57 MDT

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