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Re: [ossig] (Fwd)
I had a brief chat with En Zahar about this cache idea some time
ago. Basically, they want a hierarchy or network of 'squid' proxy
servers, or a similar solution.
Squid can probably do this quite nicely - one invocation of squid
running at one site can query squid at another site to see what
is in the cache, with the information being sent in some kind
of message digest form. So if your local squid doesn't have the
object you seek, but you find out that a nearby squid has, you
still save the bandwidth from retrieving the object from the
original source site.
Any squid experts out there to help UPSI? My only knowledge
comes from setting it up on my home network for 2 users :)
What would be *really* nice was if squid had rsync-likefunctionality,
so if a web page had only changed slightly, only those small
changes were communicated from a remote squid to a local
squid. That way you could put 1 squid on a fast, remote
server with high bandwidth, and 1 locally, and they would
send a more minimal subset of data :)
Perhaps if UPSI made it clearer whether they are paying
for somebody, or they want this to be a university project, or
whatever? Then they might get the person they seek...?
Imran
Nah Soo Hoe wrote:
------- Forwarded message follows -------
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 11:45:03 +0800
From: md zahar othman <zahar@upsi.edu.my>
Subject:
Cc: OSI.Position.Paper.on.the.SCO-vs.-IBM.Complaint@upsi.edu.my
FYI
http://www.opensource.org/sco-vs-ibm.html
I'm also looking for Open Source guy out there to collaborate on "national
web cache project" ( a joint effort with the local universities) to save
on the bandwidth and 'data traffic jam' - any taker.
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