Re: questions concerning about the range requests

Which branch?
Are you talking about squid-2.4, squid-2.5 or squid-HEAD?

Adrian

On Thu, Aug 08, 2002, Songqing Chen wrote:
> hi, folks,
> I found that the range requests(requests with Range specified at the head)
> are partially supported.
> What partially I mean here is that: follow the code, it seems
> the request could be processed by squid, but the reply for this
> kind of requests will not be saved to the local disk. (In
> httpCachableReply, the PARTIAL_CONTENT status will not be swappable.)
>
> So my questions about this are: what prevents from saving the partial
> content to the disk? what if the PARTIAL_CONTENT turns to be swappable?
>
> Is that the potential "fake hit" for the later
> requests since range is has nothing to do with the MD5 key? If it is,
> I think the content may be checked from the cached data to find it is not
> a REAL hit and seems not very hard to do.
> And I also want to know the future plan of processing range requests.
>
>
> Thank you.
>
>
>
> --
>
> Chen,Songqing
> Dept. of Computer Science
> College of William&Mary
>
Received on Wed Aug 07 2002 - 23:23:16 MDT