On Fri, 23 Jun 2000 at 14:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>dear mates,
I sure hope this is in the Australian spirit because if it ain't ...
yikes. ;>
>what are the advantages/disadvantages of using a squid proxy server ?
>sometimes its much better kasi when i use direct connection..bakit kaya
>?
I think by this line of questioning you're asking more generally "why go
through a proxy". It doesn't sound like a Squid versus
some-other-proxy-server question. The benefit of going through a proxy is
that if more than one request(s) are made during a relatively short period
of time (I don't know the cut-offs before Squid will re-check the document
and download it again) then instead of having to get the file from
wherever, the proxy can give you the file from its cache. This has proven
to be very helpful for me when updating a bunch of Winblows boxes via
windowsupdate.microsoft.com. It's a pain in the neck (cause I don't know
how) to download the updates first then run them in sequence, so instead I
make sure I update at the same time. Only the first downloads from the
'Net at max 5.6kbps, the rest fly away thanks to a 100Mbps connection to
my proxy.
-+[ Jijo Sevilla ]+-
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