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.