Re: [squid-users] R: [squid-users] R: [squid-users] Cancelled downloads

Well, if you haev any windows server on your network, you could use WSUS.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/wsus/default.aspx

CASALI COMPUTERS - Michele Brodoloni wrote:
> In this case, are you aware of some third-party software/squid plugin which may could do the job?
> I'm still crawling the entire internet without luck... I've seen a redirector written in perl, but it seems to use other
> caching mechanism, so it renders useless my windows updates collection fetched until now... :)
>
> For who is interested:
> http://www.glob.com.au/windowsupdate_cache/
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
> -----Messaggio originale-----
> Da: Amos Jeffries [mailto:squid3_at_treenet.co.nz]
> Inviato: venerdì 19 marzo 2010 9.25
> A: squid-users_at_squid-cache.org
> Oggetto: Re: [squid-users] R: [squid-users] Cancelled downloads
>
> CASALI COMPUTERS - Michele Brodoloni wrote:
>
>> Hmmm..
>> So I guess this behaviour is caused by these following lines:
>>
>> range_offset_limit -1
>> maximum_object_size 200 MB
>> quick_abort_min -1
>>
>> Which are used to cache the most possible from windows update... (from: http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/WindowsUpdate)
>> At this point I'm asking if there's any workaround for this.. I mean: is it possible to make "quick_abort_min" to be set to -1 only for windows updates,
>> and have it behave normally for the rest of the websites?
>>
>> Thanks a lot
>>
>>
>
> Not with the current Squid. Sorry.
> There is a patch on my TODO list to add ACL support to
> range_offset_limit, but nothing yet for quick-abort.
>
> Amos
>
>
>> -----Messaggio originale-----
>> Da: Amos Jeffries [mailto:squid3_at_treenet.co.nz]
>> Inviato: venerdì 19 marzo 2010 7.19
>> A: squid-users_at_squid-cache.org
>> Oggetto: Re: [squid-users] Cancelled downloads
>>
>> CASALI COMPUTERS - Michele Brodoloni wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>> is it possible to stop squid from keep downloading a file when a user stops the download from his browser?
>>> If an user initiates a 1GB of web download and then hits ?cancel?, squid doesn?t mind it and continues to download until it finishes, and this is a waste of bandwidth.
>>>
>>> Is there a solution for this behavior?
>>>
>>>
>> This is the default behaviour of Squid.
>>
>> Check your configuration settings for:
>> http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/config/quick_abort_max/
>> http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/config/quick_abort_min/
>> http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/config/quick_abort_pct/
>> http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/config/range_offset_limit/
>>
>>
>> Amos
>>
>
>
>
Received on Fri Mar 19 2010 - 14:04:10 MDT