Adam, I came in this morning and tested this config again, and it is not working. I restarted the Squid service and this did not help. It looks like the timeout is back to 1 minute, but the conf file has a persistent_request_timeout of 30 minutes which was working yesterday. I don't understand WHY it would work yesterday and not today????? Any hint on how to T-shoot would be very helpful. TIA
-Mark >Okay, here are my new settings: > >half_closed_clients on >request_timeout 10 minutes >persistent_request_timeout 5 minutes > >I opened up a Yahoo account to test. It seems the connection does stay >open up to 5 minutes (Better then before), then dies. So, the answer >would be to up the persistent_request_timeout to something like 8 hours >to allow workers to keep windows open all day, like M$ Proxy. Is there >any drawbacks in speed or resources in doing so? Looks like you're on the right track. You could set it to 8 hours, but I think a better idea would be to set it to something more reasonable (like 30 minutes), then explain to your users potential problems with keeping the window inactive that long: 1) The webserver might time out the connection 2) They won't find out if they have new messages 3) Security risks of leaving the browser logged in all day - Someone else reading their email - Someone else sending email in their name - Someone else changing the password on them Other than the fact that it will tie up Squid FDs, I don't see any issues with letting Squid keep the connection open all day (other than those listed above, which aren't Squid issues). Adam
