On Sat, 28 Jul 2001, Federico Sevilla III wrote:
> Hi there everyone,
>
> Are there any known issues with using lftp's pget behind a Squid proxy to
> download files via HTTP and FTP? I am wondering if there are integrity
> pentalites to be paid by doing this. I have found that lftp's pget, when
> accessing sites directly, does a pretty good job. I don't know how things
> are when there's a Squid proxy in between, though. I was hoping to use a
> Squid proxy to benefit from a small network of local Squid caches.
>
> Thanks in advance! :)
Using lftp's pget through a squid proxy can end up in a nasty result. At
last, at home, I didn't got great results. When I tried for example to
download four times in parallel, the squid proxy decided to download the
file entierely to store it for cache. When done, the squid transferred the
file to lftp by splits. But since the squid is a local server, I didn't
got the benefits I hoped since the squid has downloaded the file in one
shot, and not in parallel.
Well, maybe if the squid server is located outside your local network at a
place with a different peering, you may get better result. But I don't
think so because the squids servers are often located near you. So the
peering will be the same and the download speed will be the same...
Cheers,
-- Nicolas Noble
