On 22/03/2012, at 4:19 AM, Jack Bates wrote:
> On 10/03/12 08:43 PM, Jack Bates wrote:
>> What can sites like this do to help intermediate proxies like Apache
>> Traffic Server make cache hits from requests for the same content from
>> different mirrors?
>>
>> Are there any best practices?
>
> Has there ever been any discussion or work on supporting RFC 6249 [1] or
> "Metalink" [2] in Apache Traffic Server?
No I don't think so.
>
> I found this [3] mention of Metalink and intermediate caching proxies
> ("Metalink integration with Proxy/Cache" heading)
That sounds like a pretty useful project. There's probably a number of
different ways a plugin could implement this. Folks on the dev list or
#traffic-server would be happy to help.
>
> [1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6249
> [2] http://metalinker.org/
> [3] http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/metalinks/wiki/GsocIdeas
