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-# $Id: cf.data.pre,v 1.228 2001/10/03 22:56:20 hno Exp $
+# $Id: cf.data.pre,v 1.229 2001/10/03 23:00:07 hno Exp $
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# SQUID Web Proxy Cache http://www.squid-cache.org/
DEFAULT: 95
LOC: Config.quickAbort.pct
DOC_START
- The cache can be configured to continue downloading aborted
- requests. This may be undesirable on slow (e.g. SLIP) links
- and/or very busy caches. Impatient users may tie up file
- descriptors and bandwidth by repeatedly requesting and
- immediately aborting downloads.
+ The cache by defaults continues downloading aborted requests
+ which are almost completed (less than 16 KB remaining). This
+ may be undesirable on slow (e.g. SLIP) links and/or very busy
+ caches. Impatient users may tie up file descriptors and
+ bandwidth by repeatedly requesting and immediately aborting
+ downloads.
When the user aborts a request, Squid will check the
quick_abort values to the amount of data transfered until
If more than 'quick_abort_pct' of the transfer has completed,
it will finish the retrieval.
- If you do not want any requests to continue after the client
+ If you do not want any retrieval to continue after the client
has aborted, set both 'quick_abort_min' and 'quick_abort_max'
to '0 KB'.
- If you want downloads to always continue if they are being
+ If you want retreivals to always continue if they are being
cached then set 'quick_abort_min' to '-1 KB'.
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