Here is the problem description, what solution might Squid or other cache tools provide? Some websites serve huge files, usually movies or binary distributions. Typically a client issues byte range requests, which are not cacheable as separate objects in Squid. Waiting for the whole file to be brought into the cache takes way too long, and is not granular enough for optimizations. A possible solution would be if Squid (or other tool/plugin) knew how to download huge files *in chunks*. Then the tool would cache these chunks and transform them into arbitrary ranges when serving client requests. There are some possible optimizations, like predictive chunk caching and cold chunks eviction. Does anybody know how to put together such solution based on any existing tools?
