On Sunday 10 August 2003 22.05, Bob Arctor wrote:
> axel is an download 'accelerator'
> originally it splits file to parts (equal) , opens local file , and
> download it.
This kind of things (download 'acceleration') is extremely unlikely to
make it into Squid as the Squid developers oppose such use of HTTP
and such anti-social abuse of the Internet resources in general.
The traffic pattern of HTTP is bad as it is. The use of download
accelerators makes it a horror, intentionally breaking others
interactive sessions to try to make ones downloads faster.
What we might add to Squid at some point in time is a 'download
anti-accelerator' which detects the use of a download accelerators
and makes the requests behave on the Internet like a single normal
request to make the proxied traffic behave even if you have greedy
anti-social users. There is however a few technical difficulties in
doing this mainly related to HTTP protocol timing, but it can most
likely be done without breaking the results of too many download
accelerators.
Regards
Henrik
Received on Sun Aug 10 2003 - 15:26:18 MDT
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