[plug] Squid and Windows Update Cache

[Shannon Carver]

Sorry to re-open this topic again guys..

Ryan, 

Have you had problems with the script not working with Windows update?
Its caching my Microsoft.com and windowsupdate.com downloads, but
computers behind the proxy now can't use Windows Update itself.

Shannon

-----Original Message-----
From: Shannon Carver 
Sent: Thursday, 3 November 2005 3:16 PM
To: 'plug at plug.org.au'
Subject: RE: [plug] Squid and Windows Update Cache

Thanks dude, that's ok, I've allowed 80G of space for the cache so I'll
just run it through the update process a couple of times

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 3:12 PM
To: plug at plug.org.au
Subject: RE: [plug] Squid and Windows Update Cache

That's the hit you take for the first time.  I ususally stop the
download as you suggested and start it later, though most of the time I
just leave it and let it be.

I can't think of any way to overcome this given the way it uses wget
externally to fetch the file.  Pausing and waiting for wget to finish
would normally result in the browser timing out.

Ryan

On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 14:54 +0800, Shannon Carver wrote:
> 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.