trusted squid caching

[Jeff Chua <jeff80@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Is there an option to allow the connection to be held open between two 
squid servers for a long duration?

I want to reduce the intial setup up to connect remotely to an apache 
server with "wget" since wget doesn't support http 1.1 persistent caching, 
plus wget session does not stay open after it is done.

I'm assuming that having it's faster to establish local squid session, so 
the remote squid can handle the request on behalf of the local squid.

Possible?

Thanks,
Jeff