That sounds more like WAN optimisation than proxying.
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"Jorge Novo" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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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.
