Re: [squid-users] Can't show the 413 Request entity too large error page

On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, Victor Tsang wrote:

> Using packet sniffer it seems when squid stable 10 detects a request
> having a content size larger than the max body size, it returns the
> 413 error immediately but instead of terminating the connection and
> stop the upload, it lets the upload continue.

Squid eats the upload, allowing the error message to be sent to the
client. The upload is never sent to the requested server.

> To be honest I find both options to be less than perfect, what I
> really want is stop people from wasting my brandwidth at the same time
> give them a proper message to suggest they have done something stupid.

Hard. Most clients only reads the error message after the upload has been
sent. If the client connection is closed by Squid before then the
connection gets reset and the client never reads the error message.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Thu Sep 22 2005 - 08:36:49 MDT