Re: accelerated download proposal

Joseph Nicholas Yarbrough wrote:

> Download Accelerator, for those of you that do not know, is a software
> product that (among other things) attempts to accel downloads by using
> multible connections. It basically gets part of the file, while another
> thread starts where the previous thread is going to stop. Then it reassembles
> the chunks.

Download accelerators is mainly about being greedy, trying to get more
bandwidth at the expense of other users performance. There are reasons
to why some ISP's puts per connection rate limitations, it is not only
to fuck you.

"download acceleration" in this sense will not get implemented in Squid
by many reasons, both technical and political.

HTTP is striving at becoming a well behaved Internet protocol, download
acceleration is striving at becoming the worst behaved Internet
application, abusing protocols for apparent single user gains.

If all users were to use "download accelerations" then the effect is
quickly nullified and a part of the internet collapses in retransmission
storms.

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Henrik Nordstrom
Squid Hacker