Hi, I`m hoping to use Squid for the retrieval and caching of large data files(~1GB) for High Energy Physics applications. One of the considerations is the file transfer rates relative to gridFTP, which can use multiple parallel streams to increase the transfer rate. On googling around a little I found several multi-streamed 'wget-like' http clients, e.g. aget, prozilla, that get transfer speeds comparable to gridftp. These do not respect the http_proxy environment variable and do not use the squid cache, probably for the very good reason that splitting a file into several chunks for transfer will make it very hard to cache.
I can't see any way around this, but in my proposed architecture the last hop, from the squid cache to the application, is a short one, so a single stream is fine. What I`m asking is whether it would be possible to have the transfers between squid peers, and those from the source web server to the cache, be multi-streamed. Cheers, Rod. -- Rod Walker +1 6042913051
