> As a caveat to the E-mails about caching pages using a proxy, the usefulness > of such depends on how much traffic your site will see to static pages. In
My understanding doesn't agree with this. The point about caching also deals with dynamic one time through away pages in a scenario as described below: Server A -> Proxy Server B -> Users 1 through 50 User 1 requests data. Server B interecepts and sends to Server A, gets answer and returns to 1. If B cannot cache the data, does it keep a connection open to A as long as 1 takes to receive the data? For example, if 50 14.4Kbps dialup users come and take 10 minutes to download a file, is Server A & Server B tied up with 50 connections for 10 minutes? My understand is that some people do caching on B simply to let A spit out all the data and let B handle the connection for as long as it takes to perform the transfer. I've heard that this can have excellent benefits but have no real world examples or experience handy. Regards, KAM
