RE: Preventing incomplete file downloads in cache

Just my personal opinion, but the settings below sound bad to me. If
someone downloads that 50MB Quake3 demo, it's going to flush a *lot*
of files from your cache.

On Tue, 7 Dec 1999 09:55:38 -0600 (CST), Brian wrote:

>
>I had mine set to:
>
>quick_abort_min 0 KB
>quick_abort_max 0 KB
>quick_abort_pct 100
>
>
>So that would mean that it completes all downloads right?
>
>
>On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Karl Ferguson wrote:
>
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Brian [mailto:signal@shreve.net]
>> >
>> > If a user is downloading a file via the web, and going thru squid, and
>> > then cancels that download before it finishes, will an incomplete file be
>> > cached by squid? Will squid discard the file completely? Or will squid
>> > continue to download to complete the file? I would like to tell squid to
>> > continue to download and complete the file even if the user cancels, is
>> > this possible?
>>
>> Sure is - in your squid.conf look for the following lines:
>>
>> quick_abort_min
>> quick_abort_max
>> quick_abort_pct
>>
>> I personally would use quick_abort_pct - so if a download was over 10%
>> completed then it'd continue to get the file. There's plenty of
>> documentation on it.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> --
>> Karl Ferguson
>> Network Engineer Tel: +61 8 9481 4010
>> Corporate Computer Consultants Pty Ltd Fax: +61 8 9481 4767
>> Level 1/220 St Georges Tce, Perth WA http://www.ccc.com.au
>>
>
>-----------------------------------------------------
>Brian Feeny (BF304) signal@shreve.net
>318-222-2638 x 109 http://www.shreve.net/~signal
>Network Administrator ShreveNet Inc. (ASN 11881)
>

*** Steve Snyder ***
Received on Tue Dec 07 1999 - 10:34:42 MST