Re: resuming apt-get downloads
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 08:42:15AM -0600, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 08:21:31PM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 04:08:13PM -0600, Colin Watson wrote:
> > > This isn't true. APT's HTTP method has always used the HTTP/1.1 Range:
> > > header to attempt to resume downloads from the middle of a file. The
> > > only reason it might not work is if the server doesn't support
> > > byte-range operations.
> >
> > Thanks correcting me. My total misunderstanding.
> >
> > Does squid affect it? I use squid as proxy. Just curious.
>
> It could well do. http://squid.sourceforge.net/squidhttp1.1.htm suggests
> that squid's HTTP support might not be exactly perfect, but I don't know
> the details.
>
> I suppose, if you're using squid as a proxy, it doesn't matter too much
> whether APT resumes HTTP downloads or not?
For informations on how squid deals with range headers, see:
http://squid.visolve.com/squid24s1/tuning.htm#range_offset_limit
http://squid.visolve.com/squid24s1/tuning.htm#quick_abort_min
Cheers,
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Hélios de Creisquer <helios@balios.org>
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