Bug#349470: squid-prefetch: HEAD prefetch feature

2006-01-25 Thread Brian White
Often a HEAD request is followed by a GET. It would be useful if squid-prefetch was aware of this and performed a GET when it sees a HEAD request. You mean, when squid-prefetch sees a HEAD request in the log, it should do a GET in anticipation of the other program doing a GET? If so, then

Bug#349470: squid-prefetch: HEAD prefetch feature

2006-01-25 Thread Nigel Horne
Brian White wrote: o do a GET has already done so. Also, I'm not aware of any browsers that do a HEAD request before a GET when reading pages. Thus, it would only be programs doing downloads that would act such and those wouldn't get pre-fetched anyway. Browsers aren't the only programs

Bug#349470: squid-prefetch: HEAD prefetch feature

2006-01-23 Thread Nigel Horne
Package: squid-prefetch Version: 1.0-1 Severity: wishlist Often a HEAD request is followed by a GET. It would be useful if squid-prefetch was aware of this and performed a GET when it sees a HEAD request. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT