2009/5/30 Amos Jeffries <[email protected]>: > Jorge Novo wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> My name is Jorge I am not subscribed to the list cos actually I am >> not a developer. I would be. >> >> I have a little question: is it possible to use Squid for caching >> another kind of traffic? >> >> I am using BlueCoat ProxySG. http://www.bluecoat.com/ >> >> [quote] >> Control — Proxy Services >> Proxy support for multiple protocols >> -> HTTP, CIFS, SSL, FTP, MAPI, P2P, MMS, RTSP, QuickTime, TCP-Tunnel, DNS >> -> Bandwidth management on all proxy services >> -> SSL Termination & Proxy (forward and reverse) >> -> Control encrypted traffic for all users and applications inside and >> outside the enterprise >> [/quote] >> >> >> This product caches and compress CIFS and several other protocols. >> >> Could be a new feature in next versions of Squid >> > > I doubt it. > > CIFS is 11 years expired. Very complicated, and not relevant to HTTP. It's a > file system which Windows and Samba wrap nicely into other forms which Squid > can use already so no need to add this muddle of obsolete mess to Squid. When I said CIFS, I mean Windows Network Files System (Samba indeed )
I told it was CIFS, cos in BlueCoat configuration BlueCoat caches Windows resources in a VPN or private WAN environment It's really a usefull caches this kind or trafic > I suspect BC support it as part of their router/firewall features. I've > heard of their WebGate using Squid so it's not in there. Not It is caching and also compressing between two BlueCoat Proxy SG apliance.
