Hi Neilson, I wonder what's in your access.log for that test. I looked at the kazaahttp weppage and it suggests that it only uses the CONNECT method, which is actually an uncachable tunnel...
On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Neilson Henriques wrote: > Hello list, > > I did some tests with a small and nice soft called KazaaHTTP > (www.iprisma.com/kazaahttp) that translate a SOCKS 5 connection > to a HTTP one. My big surprise when I tried to download a "licenced" > music from Kazaa from one machine and tried again from other. The > speed reaches 1033 kbytes/s (yes ! squid cached it nicely) ! > > Well ... at this moment you already figured out what happens when > Kazaa asks for small (and different) chunks of the file from other hosts ... > obviously, the squid doesn't have a way to cache it ... > > This list is composed mainly of sysadmins that see tons of their > bandwidth going away day after day and I'm pretty sure that everybody > here will like to have a way to cache this content using a grateful and > reliable code that squid is, instead to use a proprietary and costly code > (PeerCache, CacheLogic, etc). > > I don't know anything about squid internals so my question is: > > "Duane, can't squid have a module to handle this kind of use?" > > > Neilson > > >
