On Thu, Mar 22, 2007, Mike Dawson wrote: > Hello All, > > I've done some googling and searching of the mailing lists and I wanna > see what direction I should go to make Squid pre-fetch the img, link, > and javascript elements and then push them to the server on the other > side of a satellite connection. I would have expected it to be a more > common situation... (we're here in Afghanistan - no choice... - two way > sat connection) Ah, push caching. This is something I've had a few people ask from your general area over the last 6 months (iran, iraq, afghanistan). The short and long of it is: * Yes, push caching is a great idea, especially if you run satellite links which you can multipoint-drop popular content down by transmitting once. * Yup, people got Squid to do it in the past, but that stuff is stale. * It would be nice to get it into Squid in some form again. So if people are interested then please let me know; if there's room to fund a project with time and/or money then I'm happy to help people get it done. (I did some push caching experiments when I first got involved in IP over satellite way back in 1997, so I know quite a bit about how prefetching and distributed multicast-type content setups. I just couldn't talk about it then.) Adrian
