Neha Nahar wrote:
Hello everyone, I want to limit the size of a webpage downloaded by my browser (Firefox) to 2MB. I plan to use squid as the proxy. Will setting up the reply_body_max_size to 2MB limit it for me ? I read the Squid documentation regarding reply_body_max_size. It says that it wont work for downstream caches. I am not sure what that means. Is downstream cache from client to web server or from web server to client.
Client web browser is as far 'down' as the request chain gets. Original web server as far 'up'.
A web page or file sent out without any information on length, which gets cut at X-bytes long instead of its actual length. A program reading those X-bytes without any way of knowing its cut will assume its complete. Using this option will cause such file-cutting to be done and *will* seriously screw up some content for caches acting as clients of yours.
Regarding the 2MB limit, it applies to all bodies. That will affect any data files downloaded as well as HTML.
Amos -- Please use Squid 2.6STABLE17+ or 3.0STABLE1+ There are serious security advisories out on all earlier releases.
