Re: [squid-users] Download accelerators

From: Brian <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 16:23:37 -0400

On Friday 18 April 2003 09:35 am, Waters wrote:
> I've set up Squid for controling traffic and also for caching files,
> for better performance of network. I don't know if it's bug or
> feature, but I've noticed, that users who are using download
> accelerators (such as FlashGet), they are killing cache objects.
> Even if they're downloading file in one session. Any ideas how to
> prevent this?

They are adding no-cache headers to their requests, so a new copy is
always pulled from the origin server. Squid has a reload-into-ims
option that violates the proxy standards, but does fix this 'feature'
in the download managers.

        -- Brian
Received on Fri Apr 18 2003 - 14:28:37 MDT

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