On Sun, 20 Feb 2005, Chris Knipe wrote:
1) Does squid cache objects locally fetched from a SIBLING parent?, and
Yes, unless you tell it not to.
2) Whilst I know squid is not a RTSP / MMS / <add your fav streaming protocol here>, what is the standing on HTTP streaming?
It gets passed via the proxy, but not cached, nor is there any stream splitting, and no plans at all on even caring to try to implement stream splitting of HTTP streaming.
Things like NetAPP proxies have a feature where a stream is fetched only once, and then distributed from the cache to the clients accessing the specific stream.
This is relatively easy to do if you have proxies for the native streaming protocols. It is not at all easy for HTTP streaming and I seriously doubt NetAPP does this on HTTP streaming.
Can something similar be possible on squid (obviously, limited to HTTP streaming only). I'm mostly interested in somehow getting shoutcast streams to be fetched only once and distributed from the cache to clients. Thus, I actually only have one connection from the proxy to the stream, and can have say 40 from the proxy to the clients.... I hope this makes sense...
For this you should be using a shoutcast proxy with support for stream splitting.
Regards Henrik
