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Re: Reverse proxy non-performance benefits

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On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 10:12:32PM -0500, Chris Woodfield wrote:
>
> On Feb 6, 2008, at 3:44 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I see Apache can also do reverse proxy, which was surprising to me,  
>>> or
>>> is it not quite the same thing?
>>
>> Sort of. :)
>>
>
> Apache's ProxyPass module performs similar proxying functionality, but  
> without squid's caching abilities, so you won't get any traffic- 
> offloading benefits, which really is squid's raison d'etre - the other  
> benefits Adrian mentioned are more or less side benefits.

Is Apache's caching so bad it's not worth mentioning? It definately has the
ability.


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