Re: alternate parent selection algorithms

On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Niilo Neuvo wrote:

> The other point is that I want to move the process of selecting the
> cache that actually contains (or should contain) the object to the
> client software.
>
> I have a small javascript code that does this by calculating a hash
> code from every url and decides what parent to use. It is vital that
> the javascript uses the same algorithm as the parent cache uses.

Hmm.. Change your custom Javascript hash function to mimic CARP hashing
algorithm and use CARP on parent? CARP support in Squid is experimental, but
I think people reported that it works. Just a thought...

Alex.
Received on Tue Jul 29 2003 - 13:15:54 MDT