On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 07:36:05 -0600 Blake Grover <blake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > We are working on a new project where we will distribute Linux > machines in different areas that will be connected to the Internet. > But these machines might not have a Internet connection always. We > would like these machines to show certain web pages from a web server > on a loop. For example I have 7 pages that jump to one to another > after 7 - 10 seconds. But if the Internet connection goes down we > want squid to keep showing the loop of HTML pages until the > connection get restored and then squid could update the pages in the > cache. You could write a script to switch squid into offline mode when the connection goes down, but there will always be race condition problems with this. Have you considered running local webservers instead?