[Server-devel] interest in new proxy

[Reuben K. Caron]

Vivek,

This sounds very interesting. Could you provide us with more information?

Regards,
Reuben

Vivek Pai wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My name is Vivek Pai and I'm new to the list. Forgive
> me if I'm missing anything relating to this query.
>
> A long time ago, I visited OLPC to discuss HTTP proxy
> needs for the schools, and our research group at Princeton
> had a project that looked like it might be a good fit. In
> particular, it's a Web proxy that scales to large storage
> sizes without requiring large memory consumption. It can,
> for example, use a 1TB USB drive as a store, while requiring
> only a XO-class laptop to drive it.
>
> Is there interest in something like this for the XS server?
> We're also working on a WAN accelerator that uses this
> proxy, providing transparent compression of content, even
> for dynamic Web sites.
>
> The original ticket for this was
> <https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6#comment:8>
>
> -Vivek
>
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