Re: Delaying based on content-type, is it possible?

From: David Luyer <luyer@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 14:32:10 +0800 (WST)

On Wed, 6 Aug 1997, Magossa'nyi A'rpa'd wrote:
>We have a slow connection to the outside (500Kbit/sec for 7000 people),
>and of course the main load comes from useless pictures. We tought if we
>would implement some delay or bandwith restriction on gifs and jpegs, it
>could result in speedup for those who use internet for actually doing
>something (assuming that they are professionals, and have turned off image
>autoloading anyway), and help educate the rest about how to effectively use
>internet.

My delay patches against squid-1.1.10 or so (on ftp.uwa.edu.au in
/pub/squid) delay based on ACLs, which could be URL regex's I assume (I've
only ever used them with source URLs). You could look at them.

David.
Received on Wed Aug 06 1997 - 23:34:44 MDT

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