On Sunday 10 August 2003 22.05, Bob Arctor wrote: > axel is an download 'accelerator' > originally it splits file to parts (equal) , opens local file , and > download it.
This kind of things (download 'acceleration') is extremely unlikely to make it into Squid as the Squid developers oppose such use of HTTP and such anti-social abuse of the Internet resources in general. The traffic pattern of HTTP is bad as it is. The use of download accelerators makes it a horror, intentionally breaking others interactive sessions to try to make ones downloads faster. What we might add to Squid at some point in time is a 'download anti-accelerator' which detects the use of a download accelerators and makes the requests behave on the Internet like a single normal request to make the proxied traffic behave even if you have greedy anti-social users. There is however a few technical difficulties in doing this mainly related to HTTP protocol timing, but it can most likely be done without breaking the results of too many download accelerators. Regards Henrik
