Re: [squid-users] Update Accelerator, Squid and Windows Update Caching

Richard Wall wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been reading through the archive looking for information about
> squid 2.6 and windows update caching. The FAQ mentions problems with
> range offsets but it's not really clear which versions of Squid this
> applies to.

All versions. The FAQ was the result of my experiments mid last year.
With some tweaks made early his year since Vista came out.
We haven't done a intensive experiments with Vista yet.

> I'm going to experiment, but if anyone has any positive or
> negative experience of Squid and windows update caching, I'd be really
> interested to hear from you.
>
> In case Squid cannot do windows update caching by its self, I'm also
> looking at integrating Update Accelerator
> (http://update-accelerator.advproxy.net/) script with standard squid
> 2.6 and wondered if anyone else had any experience of this.
> The update accelerator script is just a perl wrapper around wget which
> is configured as a Squid url_rewrite_program. It's not clear to me
> what this script is doing that Squid wouldn't do by its self.

Strange indeed.

Amos

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