On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 07:57:28AM -0800, Bob Miller wrote: >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.
I used to run squid, but I found it didn't help as much as I had hoped. I had even slaved it off our up-stream cache, so I could hopefully get pages faster if ANYONE else had gotten them recently. The problem being that many web sites (particularly the slower ones, suprisingly enough) were setting their headers so that the pages would expire immediately and squid would re-load them anyway. Web-sites, particularly those that have banner advertising, like to get as many hits as possible, wether it's a re-load of the same visitor or not. I should try it again though. I'd particularly like it on my laptop when I'm on that amazingly slow 1KB wireless connection. >Sorry, let me rephrase the question: What about a transparent >FTP *CACHING* proxy? Squid will cache ftp:// URLs if you set up your browser to go through it. Not sure what the status of using a proxy with various command-line clients is. I'd be suprised if lftp didn't support it, though. Sean -- "I was on IRC once and got mistaken for Dan Bernstein. I still have nightmares." -- Donnie Barnes Sean Reifschneider, Inimitably Superfluous <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> tummy.com - Linux Consulting since 1995. Qmail, KRUD, Firewalls, Python
