Squid limit download file size

Can anybody help me? How to increase file size limit in aix 5. Limit size of the file. How do I limit size of a file to 1 MB or something like that under Linux?

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Any ideas? Linux user limit? Are there any limits on the amount of users you can have on a linux box? Have the likes of Red Hat introduced any license limits or is it just constrained by system parameters like ulimit max user What is on Your Mind?

Thanks Bache Gowda 1 Reply. RedHat Commands. OpenSolaris Commands. Linux Commands. SunOS Commands. The internal Squid-server still gives you the benefit of caching. Disadvantages: The internal Squid proxyserver can't and shouldn't work with other parent or neighbor caches.

Initial requests are slower because these go through http-gw, http-gw also does reverse lookups. Run a nameserver on the firewall or use an internal nameserver. Security - X-Forwarded-For When a proxy-cache is used, a server does not see the connection coming from the originating client. Many people like to implement access controls based on the client address. We must note that access controls based on this header are extremely weak and simple to fake.

Anyone may hand-enter a request with any IP address whatsoever. Because of the weakness of this header, access controls based on X-Forwarded-For are not used by default. Yes it can, however the way of doing it has changed from earlier versions of squid. Please follow the instructions for the version of squid that you are using.

As a default, no anonymizing is done. NP: Squid must be built with the --enable-http-violations configure option before building. Current squid releases provide a mix of header control directives and capability; Squid 2. Squid 3. For details see the documentation in squid. For example, if you want Squid to connect directly to hotmail. Viewed 2k times. Are you asking if downloads should be limitted, or how they can be limitted? Help on what? This is probably not the best place for that.

I don't see the connection between download time and session timeout. The session should only be checked at the start of the download. It sounds like you haven't sorted out the requirements properly. What are the constraints on bandwidth that you have?

Should some users be able to download more than others? Have you thought about bandwidth throttling? Owen: The connection between download size and session timeout is that if they download a large file, then when they go back to use the site the session will have expired.