Re: [squid-users] Downloading zip file via squid cache

Philippe Geril wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a very basic scenario, but I am little confused because there are
> pretty much advanced things available.
>
> here is the case:
>
>>> 2 clients, client-A and client-B
>
>>> 1 squid 2.5 server running with default squid.conf (modified acls, cache directories, etc)
>
>>> This is a url http://example.com/application.zip [120MB]
>
> -------------
>
> Now for example client-A requests the above url
> http://example.com/application.zip which is of 120MBs.
>
> I want that whenever the client-B requests the same url from the squid
> box, squid verifies that the url exists in cache, and then deliver it
> from the cache instead of going to the internet to retrieve it.
>
> My questions are:
> - How to configure it.
> - I want to ignore client no-cache headers, i.e. always download from
> cache than going to server
>
>
> any help would be highly appreciated.
>
> peace
>
> P

Please try an upgrade to 2.6 first at least.
http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v2/2.6/cfgman/miss_access.html

Amos

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