Re: [squid-users] Squid 2.7 and 206 requests

Marcello Romani wrote:
> Hi,
> I have squid2.7STABLE3 running on a debian system.
> I have a partially downloaded ISO file, and I'd like to finish the
> download without restarting it from scratch.
> I'm using wget with -c option.
> When squid sees the 206/partial content response from the server hosting
> the ISO file, it starts downloading the entire file from the beginning.
> wget doesn't receive nothing in the meantime.
> After some time, wget decides that the request has timed out, so retries
> the download issuing a new request, which of course receives another 206
> response, causing squid to start a new download of the entire ISO file
> from byte 0.
> And so on...
>
> The only solution (since I cannot bypass the proxy) is to avoid using
> the -c option, and do a full download instead of a partial one.
>
> So it seems that squid2.7 doesn't support 206 requests.
> Is this a missing feature or is there some config option I should look at ?
>
> Thanks in advance for any pointers.
>

http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/config/range_offset_limit

Amos

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