Hi everybody,

> That sounds more like WAN optimisation than proxying.

Yes of course, but Squid also optimize the WAN. Squid is a Proxy&Cache

Squid is proxy and cache for http, ftp, gopher and wais (whois also ;-) )

>>>       I have a little question: is it possible to use Squid for caching
>>>       another kind of traffic?

>>>>
>>>>     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
>>>>

>>>>     This product caches and compress CIFS and several other protocols.
>>>>     Could be a new feature in next versions of Squid

>>>    I doubt it.

Me too.... :-0

>>>    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

>> When I said CIFS, I mean Windows Network File System (Samba indeed )

>> BlueCoat caches Windows resources in a VPN or private WAN environment

>> It's really a usefull caches this kind or traffic

 I think that I am looking for, something like this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CacheFS

 But for the entire network not only for one server.

 For the Squid point of view, it is a transparent caching of the
Windows Files System
trying to optimize the WAN and speed up the accesses.

Thanks for you effort for understanding my English

Salu2.

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