[squid-users] Re: Squid problems with Windows Update

I am using squid2.5 - stable5, i don't find an issue like this .. Which
version are u on ?

Regards

Babar Kazmi

-----Original message-----
From: Adam Aube aaube01@baker.edu
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 21:38:11 +0300
To: squid-users@squid-cache.org
Subject: [squid-users] Re: Squid problems with Windows Update

> Brett Glass wrote:
>
> > Yesterday, Microsoft announced a bunch of new bug fixes, which nearly
> > every Windows machine on the Net is eagerly downloading. Unfortunately,
a
> > client of mine is having problems with a transparent Squid proxy with
> > Windows machines behind it. Apparently, Windows Update fetches updates
in
> > chunks, about 2K at a time.
>
> > In any case, each time a client requests a 2K chunk, the Squid proxy is
> > re-fetching an entire file that's 2 MB or larger from a parent cache.
>
> Does the same thing occur when the proxy is not running transparently?
>
> Adam
>
Received on Sun Jul 18 2004 - 12:00:55 MDT