Jacob Meuser wrote: > > Okay, I have the transparent HTTP proxy working. It's good. > > Thanks, Jake. > > Cool. I might set one up for myself, just for sh*ts and giggles :)
Here are my impressions of squid, the caching http proxy. http://www.squid-cache.org/ The slower your internet connection, the more you'll like it. The more people share your connection, the more you'll like it. Here, we have a 144K connection, and I'm pretty much the only user. Anne does most of her surfing at work. (*Shh*! (-: ) The proxy server comes in handiest when I find out that one browser won't render a page correctly, and want to reload the same page in a different browser. The second browser doesn't wait at all for the page. It's also handy when I'm chasing through a bunch of interrelated sites. Whenever I visit a page I've already seen, it's in the cache, and it loads instantly. The browser's caches provide a similar advantage, but those caches are only a few megabytes. I set squid up with a 5 Gb cache. I'm pretty sure I won't fill the cache for a few weeks yet. (-: > > Now, what about transparent FTP proxying? > > Long (short) answer: > $ man 8 ftp-proxy Sorry, let me rephrase the question: What about a transparent FTP *CACHING* proxy? I'm not concerned about restricting my own access to the net, nor am I setting up an FTP server. I just want to cache all those Debian packages. (-: -- Bob Miller K<bob> kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]
