RE: [squid-users] REQUEST: Turn "reply_body_max_size" into ACL - Please!!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mads Rasmussen [mailto:mads@cit.com.br]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 11:53 PM
> To: squid-users@squid-cache.org
> Cc: Robert Collins
> Subject: Re: [squid-users] REQUEST: Turn
> "reply_body_max_size" into ACL
> - Please!!
>
>
> On Tuesday 24 July 2001 10:09, you wrote:
> > The problem with doing this in a "simple" way is that the
> ACL must be
> > tested on every network read()/write() (choose one) for the object -
> > because not all objects have a size. (ie dynamic objects,
> transfer encoded
> > objects both don't).
> >
> > As an ACL, the generic http_reply acl handling code will
> handle the test -
> > but calling that code for every network transfer will incur a large
> > overhead. So this means we need two sorts of acls for
> replies - ones that
> > are checked once, and ones checked continually. OR we need to ignore
> > transfer encoded and dynamic objects with the ACL - which means it's
> > coverage will be less than coplete.
> >
> > Also: What about partial object transfers - how should they
> be handled?
>
> Yeah maybe it shouldn't be turned into an ACL but we need a
> way to create
> exceptions. Like a list of powerusers maybe?, could this be done?

An exception list is quite a bit easier yes :}. I'll see if I can put
something sensible together.

>
> Regards,
>
> Mads
>
Received on Tue Jul 24 2001 - 21:35:00 MDT