[squid-users] Basic questions - Forward proxy, reverse proxy, squid performance

2010-10-13 Thread cachenewbie
Hi - In a transparent mode, is there any protocol and functional difference between squid running in forward mode and reverse mode ? i.e. other than talking to a dedicated backend, is reverse proxy doing the same thing as forward proxy w.r.t to HTTP caching proxy functionality Also are there any

[squid-users] Re: Persistent Server connections, pipelining and matching responses

2010-09-20 Thread cachenewbie
Thanks Chad, Henrik. If we queue each request and send it after receiving the response for the previous one, we should be okay. How will this work for HTTP progressive download videos that support seek streaming (pseudo-streaming) - The first request will result in server sending the video file

[squid-users] Re: Persistent Server connections, pipelining and matching responses

2010-09-20 Thread cachenewbie
Thanks for the response. I should have clarified further. See inline below/ If we queue each request and send it after receiving the response for the previous one, we should be okay. [Henrik]How would that make you do okay? --- I meant that there is no problem in matching request to response

[squid-users] Persistent Server connections, pipelining and matching responses

2010-09-15 Thread cachenewbie
Hi: I am trying to understand Squid behavior when server side connection is pinned (persistent) and pipelining is enabled on both client and server side in a transparent proxy configuration. If there are multiple HTTP requests coming from multiple clients for the same server and if the

[squid-users] Re: Persistent Server connections, pipelining and matching responses

2010-09-15 Thread cachenewbie
Hi Chad - Thanks. How does it work for a single client that has pipelining implemented. If two GET requests are sent to the server and if hypothetically ( a poorly implemented) server responds only to the second GET, how does squid (and the client) map the response to the second request ? If