Re: [squid-users] caching wihtout proxing

On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Chris Wilcox wrote:

> Hmm, I guess you could run wget commands on the Squid server. If you tell
> wget to go through Squid, it will cache pages but is not really proxying as
> it is the Squid box making the requests for the Squid box which is not 'on
> behalf of' ie proxying. The proxy part I think is only when Squid makes web
> requests for clients.

Indeed, and in the above Squid would proxy for the wget client.

Now to the more interesting question: How do you make anything useful out
of the above, if it is only the wget command who is using the proxy?

> This has the effect of pre-caching content for LAN users who may wish to
> browse the pre-cached pages at a later date and time.

If you send the clients to the proxy then you are proxying for the
clients.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Fri Jan 09 2004 - 04:29:18 MST