[plug] Squid and Windows Update Cache

[Shannon Carver]

Ryan, 

I've been playing around with that Windows_Update Script.  One thing I
noticed its doing is, if you download an update, it downloads it to the
proxy cache, as well as to the requesting computer.  I can understand
why its doing it, I'm grabbing the file on the host computer, and the
proxy's running wget to grab the file as well.

Is there a way you can get it to download to the proxy machine, then to
the host machine, apart from stopping the download, then starting it
again?  Or have I set up something completely wrong.

Regards

Shannon

-----Original Message-----
From: plug-bounces at plug.org.au [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au] On
Behalf Of Ryan
Sent: Thursday, 3 November 2005 12:05 PM
To: plug at plug.org.au
Subject: Re: [plug] Squid and Windows Update Cache

http://www.glob.com.au/windowsupdate_cache/

Been using that for about 4 years.  It has had a few minor issues with
recent changes (last few months) to Windows Update but should still be
OK.

Best bit is it gives you file level access to the updates and you can
easily clone them to another machine or back them up etc.

Would have been absolutely stuffed without it.

Ryan


On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 08:40 +0800, Shannon Carver wrote:
> Hi Guys, 
> 
> I've set up a squid cache here at the office a few months ago, and its
> been working great except for Windows Updates.  I've tried various
> scripts, and rules for squid which supposedly work fine for windows
> updates, yet all successive downloads of the same updates come down
from
> the live server, as opposed to from the local cache server.

> Has anyone had any experience in getting Windows updates working
through
> squid?  I've tried (in my rules):
> refresh_pattern windowsupdate.com/.*\.(cab|exe) 4320 100% 43200
> reload-into-ims
> refresh_pattern download.microsoft.com/.*\.(cab|exe) 4320 100% 43200
> reload-into-ims
> refresh_pattern au.download.windowsupdate.com/.*\.(cab|exe) 4320 100%
> 43200 reload-into-ims