Jorge Novo wrote:
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 ;-) )
No. Squid is an HTTP proxy and HTTP cache.
It can retrieve FTP, Gopher, Wais etc and convert them to HTTP for
caching when those protocols are requested via HTTP requests.
CIFS is a filesystem. I find it hard to see how one could request a
filesystem object on a remote machine via HTTP without involving a web
server of some kind.
The file:// protocol tag used by browsers is explicitly restricted to
the local machine file system and not sent to external proxies.
Additionaly, I found after your earlier post that CIFS is a part of
NetBIOS. Which is obsoleted now by Microsoft.
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.
Amos
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