Kent, Mr. John (Contractor) wrote: > Have an image intensive website (satellite weather photos). > Using Squid as an accelerator. > > Want to slow down robots and spiders while basically not > affecting human users who access the web pages. > > Would the following delay_pool parameters be correct for this purpose > or would other values be better? > > delay_pools 1 # 1 delay pools > delay_class 1 2 # pool 1 is a class 2 pool > delay_parameters 1 -1/-1 32000/64000
This makes no distinction between robots and normal visitors. For that you can use the browser acl (which matches on the User-Agent string the client sends), then use different delay pools for the common browsers and robots. Adam
