On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > does squid support "download/http acceleration" thru the use of multiple > tcp connections to the target host?
No. > possible, planned? Refused as such behaviour is extremely impolite on the network in addition to very complex to get correct in all situations. The only reason why this speeds up your download is because it makes downloads for users without download "accelerators" go even worse. Fact of life: If all users were downloading with download accelerators then the Internet would most likely not work for normal traffic. Much in the same way that HTTP/1.0 (before keep-alive) was a big pain. There is one exception where multiple connections may be valid and that is if you have multiple dialup Internet connections to different ISPs (or a ISP not supporting multilink-PPP) and want to balance the download over more than one connection, but this is not a target area for Squid. Regards Henrik
