Re: [squid-users] Squid 3.0 vs. 2.6 Releases

From: Matt <lm7812_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 20:34:43 -0500

>> What are the primary differences between these releases? If I am
>> running Squid 2.6stable20 will it be relatively easy to upgrade too
>> the latest stable 3 release? Never had much trouble going from one
>> STABLE 2.6 to the next.
>>
>> Does Squid 3 handle .NET issues or IIS webservers any better then 2.6?

> Both are based on 2.5.
> - 3.0 adds features geared towards content adaptation.
> - 2.6 adds performance upgrades for high-traffic acceleration clients.
>
> The upgrade itself should be easy. Last time we checked 3.0 was on par with
> 2.6s6, so its a step down from s20. You probably want to wait for 3.1 or
> later. But it depends entirely on your performance and more importantly
> feature needs.
>
> As for .NET and IIS issues. Other than their chunk-encoding problem I'm not
> aware of any affecting squid. In that case 2.6 is slightly better than 3.0
> and worse than 3.1.

I have problems with users connecting to websites on IIS servers not
able to authenticate with user name and password. Some other user
complains they cannot upload .NET. Will the chunked-encoding issue
cause this?

Matt
Received on Thu May 22 2008 - 01:34:51 MDT

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0 : Tue Aug 05 2008 - 01:05:13 MDT