Re: [squid-users] About squid ICAP implementation

On fre, 2008-11-14 at 15:49 +0900, Mikio Kishi wrote:
> Hi, Henrik
>
> > Allow: 204 is sent if it's known the whole message can be buffered
> > within the buffer limits (SQUID_TCP_SO_RCVBUF). It's not relaed to
> > previews.
>
> Why is there such a limitation (SQUID_TCP_SO_RCVBUF) ?
> I hope that squid always send "Allow: 204" to icap servers as much
> as possible...

Because to send "Allow: 204" Squid must buffer the whole message. This
buffering is done in memory. Imagine what would happen if the message is
a dual layer DVD ISO image.. (6-8GB in size).

Regards
Henrik