cool, many thanks for the detail Henrik ^_^ Tor. On 9/22/05, Henrik Nordstrom <hno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, Victor Tsang wrote: > > > Using packet sniffer it seems when squid stable 10 detects a request > > having a content size larger than the max body size, it returns the > > 413 error immediately but instead of terminating the connection and > > stop the upload, it lets the upload continue. > > Squid eats the upload, allowing the error message to be sent to the > client. The upload is never sent to the requested server. > > > To be honest I find both options to be less than perfect, what I > > really want is stop people from wasting my brandwidth at the same time > > give them a proper message to suggest they have done something stupid. > > Hard. Most clients only reads the error message after the upload has been > sent. If the client connection is closed by Squid before then the > connection gets reset and the client never reads the error message. > > Regards > Henrik >
