Re: post large files

moy@parc.xerox.com writes:

>I have a request from a user wanting to access a service that may require
>posting files up to 100MB in size. Setting the request_size parameter
>this large is ridiculous.
>
>It seems to me that squid should only allocate enough space for the
>header, and then after opening the connection to the remote host and
>sending the header, it could just pass through the rest of the POST.
>
>I took a quick look through the code, and got lost trying to find where
>the post data gets sent.
>
>Does this sound doable? Is anyone looking into this? (I'm looking at the
>1.0.12 source code; do later version do this?)

You should find that the 1.1. version only reads the request header,
then hands everything off to the 'passthrough' routines, so the
total size of the request should not matter.

Duane W.
Received on Tue Jul 29 2003 - 13:15:40 MDT