Re: Magic Markers and MD5

Duane Wessels wrote:

> My idea was that if the client could be identified as another Squid
> cache from the request, then the reply header would include something
> like this:
>
> X-End-Of-Transfer-Marker: XXXXX
>
> Then of course that sequence of bytes would be appended at the
> end of the object. If the client Squid didn't see the marker,
> the object would be purged.

This adds the extra overhead of scanning through the actual data
being transferred. Try do this at 100mb/s.... (ie a ftp from a
local ftp site that floods the link)

If you use OOB data it would mean that (afaik) the kernel would notify you
that the data is OOB....

        Oskar
Received on Tue Jul 29 2003 - 13:15:41 MDT