On Wed, 06 Jul 2011 18:11:54 -0430, Robert Marcano wrote:
I am trying to configure Squid so it can cache big files from a
specific domain. The option maximum_object_size is a global value for
all cache_dir available. So I can increase it but my problem is that
I
do not want to allow caching of big files from another sites.
Tried increasing maximum_object_size and then cache option to test
the response and the allow or deny the caching with no success, Squid
can not check the real response body size, and testing content-length
header is not always possible (not present on every response)
Can this be done?
No. Cacheability is decided before the object size is known. The cache
size limits can only consider where to store them. There is no re-check
to discard already stored objects based on size after the transfer is
completed.
Problem is that Squid backs each transfer with a disk file in case the
data becomes too big.
Patches welcome.
do I need to setup more cache hierarchies for this?
I am trying to run a single Squid instance for simplicity.
reply_body_max_size does not help because I do not want to limit
downloads to anybody, I just want to limit caching of some big files
not all
Thanks in advance
Amos
