Marcello Romani ha scritto:
CASALI COMPUTERS - Michele Brodoloni ha scritto:
Hello,
is it possible to stop squid from keep downloading a file when a user
stops the download from his browser?
If an user initiates a 1GB of web download and then hits “cancel”,
squid doesn’t mind it and continues to download until it finishes, and
this is a waste of bandwidth.
Is there a solution for this behavior?
Thanks
Hallo,
I have the same problem here. I have set quick_abort_min and _max to
0 to avoid any (useless, in my situation) download.
But what to do with downloads that have been interrupted before the
config change ?
I.e., I have now 5-6 huge iso file that are beign downloaded by squid as
leftover from previous interrupted downloads.
Can I tell squid to abort them via some kind of administrative interface
(cachemgr doesn't seem to provie such command) or should I go the
iptables route ?
Thanks in advance.
Ok, just for reference: I dig'ed the sites hosting those iso files and
set up some iptables rules in the INPUT chain to block tcp/80 traffic
coming from them, plus some OUPUT chain rules to block outgoing traffic
as well.
Within seconds the wan traffic decreased even though I did not put those
rules on the gateway, only on the squid host.
After some time squid dropped the connection, probably due to a timeout,
and I deleted the blocking rules.
This way I've been able to "cancel" ongoing downloads without restarting
squid.
Marcello
