[squid-users] Re: Can Squid grab a list of files from a server and then Prefetch thost files?

On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 15:33:18 -0400
Jason Taylor <j@jtaylor.ca> wrote:

> miles800 wrote:
> > Can Squid grab a list of files from a server and then prefetch
> > those specific files? I would like to be able to set up a proxy
> > server (that will run on both windows and Linux) that will grab
> > mp3s and flash files from a server (running a web app) to help
> > avoid a bottleneck. Ideally I could schedule the proxy to server
> > to grab the list of files, then the files specified in that list,
> > at a certain time every day or week. It would then cache those
> > files for use when going to the web app. Can I do this with squid
> > and maybe a script?
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Kyle
> >
> I am sure you could script something with wget, saving the files
> under /dev/null
>
Actually wget has a '--delete-after' option that was implemented for
this purpose.
Received on Thu Oct 04 2007 - 17:19:09 MDT