[Server-devel] Web Caching for Areas with Intermittent

[John Watlington]

On Apr 9, 2010, at 8:38 PM, John Watlington wrote:

> Last time I looked into this, apache's proxy was solely a reverse proxy,
> and useless for our purposes.   That is no longer true, but the associated
> mod_cache module still appears to be experimental.
> In any case, squid currently provides the forward proxy/caching service
> on the XS.
I forgot the key issuen here: it is difficult to use apache as a transparent
forward proxy...

> The issue is that most proxies cease functioning if they aren't
> connected to the internet.   They only cache "cacheable" pages, etc.
> 
> Search back through the mailing list archives for Andra original
> posts...
> wad
> 
> On Apr 9, 2010, at 10:25 AM, Tim Moody wrote:
> 
>> What are the main advantages of wwwoffle over apache's built in proxy and 
>> cache modules?
>> 
>>> Message: 3
>>> Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 23:46:52 -0400
>>> From: Andra DuPont <andradupont at gmail.com>
>>> Subject: [Server-devel] Web Caching for Areas with Intermittent
>>> Internet - WWWOFFLE installation Guide on 0.6 XS Server
>>> To: XS Devel <server-devel at lists.laptop.org>
>>> Message-ID: <8959CBCB-D54B-4FB6-996A-E4A403DC9AB1 at gmail.com>
>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>>> 
>>> Squid apparently is not well suited to serve up cached pages when no 
>>> internet access is
>>> available. It was recommended that I use WWWOFFLE for this situation. Here 
>>> is the
>>> process I used to get it installed and running on my 0.6 XS server:
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