Re: [squid-users] How to handle the error: Unsupported method 'BitTorrent'

From: Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz>
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:44:32 +1300

Khemara Lyn wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> How can I handle this error in Cache log:
>
> parseHttpRequest: Unsupported method 'BitTorrent'
>
> Is it serious or does it affect Squid performance?

It's only a waste of TCP connections, if you have available fd and
socket capacity on the system you can safely ignore it.

>
> I am using Squid-2.7 compiled from source with transparent proxy and talking
> WCCP2 to a CISCO router.
>
> Can I tell Squid to immediately drop any invalid request or unsupported
> method?

It already does. That message is the warning that one has been dropped.

Amos

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Received on Wed Dec 03 2008 - 04:44:39 MST

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