Re: [squid-users] Update Accelerator, Squid and Windows Update Caching

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz> wrote:
> Richard Wall wrote:
>> I've been reading through the archive looking for information about
>> squid 2.6 and windows update caching. The FAQ mentions problems with
>> range offsets but it's not really clear which versions of Squid this
>> applies to.
>
> All versions. The FAQ was the result of my experiments mid last year. With
> some tweaks made early his year since Vista came out.
> We haven't done a intensive experiments with Vista yet.

Thanks Amos,

Okay. Well I'm planning on testing with Vista updates so I'll try and
report my findings here.

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>> In case Squid cannot do windows update caching by its self, I'm also
>> looking at integrating Update Accelerator
>> (http://update-accelerator.advproxy.net/) script with standard squid
>> 2.6 and wondered if anyone else had any experience of this.
>> The update accelerator script is just a perl wrapper around wget which
>> is configured as a Squid url_rewrite_program. It's not clear to me
>> what this script is doing that Squid wouldn't do by its self.
>
> Strange indeed.

I'll let you know how it goes :)

-RichardW.
Received on Fri Oct 10 2008 - 11:54:54 MDT