[H-GEN] antivirus and squid recommendations?

[Michael Anthon]

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On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 09:57:23AM +1000, David Jericho wrote:
> Zip files store the information at the end of the file, so we have to
> wait till we receive the entire file to actually be able to pull the
> file apart in a reliable manner. If the file takes an hour to transfer
> over a link, do we hold the client connection open for an hour,
> trickling through just fast enough to keep the browser from timing
> out?

I have a client that shall remain nameless that uses some weird
pain-in-the-arse system that does exactly that.  When a user requests a file
then the proxy software (no idea what it is, sorry) downloads the file to
some staging area.  While it is downloading the user sees a web page the
does a refersh every 10 seconds or so giving them the status of the
download.  Once it is complete it scans the file then the next refresh the
client is sent a redirect to download the file from the internal staging
area.  It actually works quite well but is still very annoying.

This same client also blocks ALL SSL, html forms and cookies "for security
reasons"

Unfortunately this makes it rather difficult to provide them with
secure(ish) web based access to our data.

Cheers
Michael

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