> Eli, sockets are being closed and reopened on reconfigure as well I just tested, and this is false. I opened a 100MB test file download through a proxy, reloaded the proxy multiple times, and the download kept chugging.
If I'd blacklisted my IP as part of that reload, I don't know if it would have kicked me off or let the open socket finish, but that's primarily an academic question. Second test: logged into a server that's currently doing 50Mb/s and probably around 100 requests/sec. Watched traffic in dstat. Did a squid reload. No drop. Reloading is fine.
