Re: questions concerning about the range requests

squid-2.4.
Is that processed in 2.5 and HEAD?

On Wed, 7 Aug 2002, Adrian Chadd wrote:

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> Which branch?
> Are you talking about squid-2.4, squid-2.5 or squid-HEAD?
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> Adrian
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> On Thu, Aug 08, 2002, Songqing Chen wrote:
> > hi, folks,
> > I found that the range requests(requests with Range specified at the head)
> > are partially supported.
> > What partially I mean here is that: follow the code, it seems
> > the request could be processed by squid, but the reply for this
> > kind of requests will not be saved to the local disk. (In
> > httpCachableReply, the PARTIAL_CONTENT status will not be swappable.)
> >
> > So my questions about this are: what prevents from saving the partial
> > content to the disk? what if the PARTIAL_CONTENT turns to be swappable?
> >
> > Is that the potential "fake hit" for the later
> > requests since range is has nothing to do with the MD5 key? If it is,
> > I think the content may be checked from the cached data to find it is not
> > a REAL hit and seems not very hard to do.
> > And I also want to know the future plan of processing range requests.
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> >
> > Thank you.
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> > --
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> > Chen,Songqing
> > Dept. of Computer Science
> > College of William&Mary
> >
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Chen,Songqing
Dept. of Computer Science
College of William&Mary