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Title:Internet Tools
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Created:Fri Jun 25 1993
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
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4480.0. "Proxy server partial file copy" by NETRIX::"[email protected]" (Ryan Price) Tue Feb 18 1997 05:19

Hi,

I've set up a caching proxy server using the CERN httpd
that comes with the IAS V3.1 kit.

Every now and again, a user will start downloading a file (typically a
binary file, html seems to be OK), and it will abort without completing 
the copy. The server then has the incomplete file in cache, and subsequent 
attempts to download the file result in the incomplete file being copied 
to the client system. HTML doesn't seem affected (at least I haven't had
complaints about HTML).

The only way to clear the problem is to manually remove the file from
the cache directory.

It doesn't seem to matter whether the file size is know or not.

Is this a common problem, and can some tell me how to work around it ?

regards
Ryan
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