> I'm working in PC Repair service company. We are of course loading often > drivers, utilities, updates etc from manufacturer webpages (Acer, Lenovo, > Fujitsu-Siemens, etc). > > Since we are on limited connection and we want to speed up downloads, we > want to use squid to cache those files. So you need to download each file > only once. We are building up a server for this so CPU/RAM/DISK won't be a > problem. > > I have had a quick test with Squid and have found it working well. > > However, I am having problem with manufacturers, which does not have > hard-coded http/ftp url, but dynamic pages which are "streaming" file to > the > browser. > > One problematic is Fujitsu-Siemens. > > When I am downloading drivers from Lenovo, they work fine, since they are > using "normal" urls, for example: > http://download.boulder.ibm.com/ibmdl/pub/pc/pccbbs/mobiles/1rg807ww.exe > > But I am unable to cache downloaded drivers and software from > Fujitsu-Siemens pages. > > For example, when downloading this file: > > http://support.fujitsu-siemens.com/Download/ShowDescription.asp?SoftwareGUID > =50AD6EEC-53F0-4B6E-9C13-53E2CB51D36B&OSID=DD13C337-8EFF-4CFB-A589-72971D7BC > BCE&Status=True&Component=Flash%20Bios%20for%20AMILO%20Pro%20V8210 > > It will show up in squid access.log like this: > > -- > 1190578174.875 1422 192.168.11.5 TCP_MISS/200 22284 GET > http://support.fujitsu-siemens.com/Download/ShowDescription.asp? - > DIRECT/80.70.172.14 text/html > 1190578176.921 765 192.168.11.5 TCP_MISS/302 646 POST > http://support.fujitsu-siemens.com/Download/Download.asp - > DIRECT/80.70.172.14 text/html > 1190578177.093 172 192.168.11.5 TCP_MISS/302 1090 GET > http://support.fujitsu-siemens.com/Download/StreamFileToBrowser.asp? - > DIRECT/80.70.172.14 text/html > 1190578184.078 6985 192.168.11.5 TCP_MISS/200 1263991 GET > http://support.fujitsu-siemens.com/download/FileDownload/fileDownload.aspx? > - DIRECT/80.70.172.14 application/octet-stream > -- > > I cannot figure out how to tell Squid to cache that content. :( Is that > possible at all? > > Happy for assistance, > Alexander >
This should help a little. Although if they add a UID to the query string content still may be fetched directly. http://wiki.squid-cache.org/ConfigExamples/DynamicContent Amos
