Re: [squid-users] Timeouts details and Retry problems

Is there a way to turn off such feature, or control the number of retry
squid does?

Thanks.
Tor

Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
>
> mån 2003-03-24 klockan 12.11 skrev Fabrice DELHOSTE:
>
> > So after installing Squid, we modified connect_timeout and
> > read_timeout. We found configurations that works but we would like to
> > understand precisely why. Moreover, due to our misunderstanding, we
> > sometimes have strange effects such as double requests (or even more)
> > to the content server whereas the application correctly receives the
> > timeout error by sending only one request. Any idea?
>
> Squid automatically retries requests if the first attempt fails, to
> increase the likelyhood of a successful reply. Depending on the
> conditions there may be as much as up to 10 retries of the same request.
>
> The same is also done by most browsers.
>
> --
> Henrik Nordstrom <hno@squid-cache.org>
> MARA Systems AB, Sweden
Received on Mon Mar 24 2003 - 18:47:50 MST