Re: FTP accelerator

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 20:14:45 +0100

Only that Squid does not implement the FTP protocol, and that FTP is a
bit tricker to cache than HTTP due to the ambigous statefullness of the
protocol.

Note: When Squid caches ftp:// URLs, it does so as a HTTP proxy, which
is both stateless and non-ambigous.

Regards
Henrik

Andres Kroonmaa wrote:
>
> It has got me some time ago that Squid could be quite efficient
> dedicated FTP accelerator for some remote site, or even local
> anon-only FTP server.
> Is there anything fundamentally wrong with this idea?
>
> ------------------------------------
> Andres Kroonmaa <andre@online.ee>
> CTO, Microlink Online
> Tel: 6501 731, Fax: 6501 725
> Pärnu mnt. 158, Tallinn,
> 11317 Estonia
Received on Thu Nov 01 2001 - 12:32:46 MST

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