Limiting Download

andybrr · 09-15-2006, 04:54 PM

Hi,

Does anyone know if it is possible to limit download size with squid? For example: I want to limit the file size to only 100K, if the user tries to download bigger than 100K, it gets the Access Denied ?

Anderson

gilead · 09-15-2006, 09:56 PM

Sort of - the only info I've seen on this is at http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq...d51b035c00b904. It says:

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Can I prevent users from downloading large files?

You can set the global reply_body_max_size parameter. This option controls the largest HTTP message body that will be sent to a cache client for one request.

If the HTTP response coming from the server has a Content-length header, then Squid compares the content-length value to the reply_body_max_size value. If the content-length is larger, the server connection is closed and the user receives an error message from Squid.

Some responses don't have Content-length headers. In this case, Squid counts how many bytes are written to the client. Once the limit is reached, the client's connection is simply closed.

Note that "creative" user-agents will still be able to download really large files through the cache using HTTP/1.1 range requests.