Re: Best way to cache mirror sites

Thank you for your mail.

Do you mean local http server by "local redirection"?

But I don't want to maintain my own local mirror while I do want to increase hit
ratio somehow.
One way is to use redirector to redirect all request for any mirror to one
preconfigured site.
But then if the target server is down all mirrors seems to be down for a client
and that is exactly what
I want to avoid.

Is it possible to make squid to consider some sites as "aliases" to each other
when it looks for objects
in the cache? That is not a redirection as for misses I want squid to go to the
original requested site.

www.somesite-
             - mirror1.somesite
             - mirror2.somesite
             - mirrorN.somesite

How can I make squid to store mirror1.somesite/object as www.somesite/object in
the cache?
So that when client asks for mirror2.somesite/object squid checks for
www.somesite/object instead and if it misses
it goes to mirror2.somesite and stores the fetched object as www.somesite/object
again. And so on.

Is that possible?

Oleg

Steven Sporen wrote:

> I use redirectors and setup most of the mirrors in there for local redirection.
>
> Had some fun with IE5 though. But I managed to resolve it so if you're thinking
> of doing it for ie5 give me a shout.
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > two questions:
> >
> > 1. Is it possible to declare some sites as mirrors in squid.conf to
> > make squid to consider them all as one site for cache-hits and as
> > different sites for cache misses?
> >
> > So that if say, siteA.domain is a mirror for siteB.domain and squid gets
> >
> > http://siteA.domain/object it searches not only for that object in cache
> >
> > but also for http://siteB.domain/object. If it finds the object (hit) it
> >
> > returns it but if it misses it goes to the original siteA.domain
> > according to the original request. As far as I understand it with
> > redirection rules
> > I can force squid to always fetch objects from only one of the sites.
> >
> > 2. Is it possible to base refresh rules on Content-Type and
> > Content-Length not only on url+Last Modified and other time related
> > headers? I want to make "large" objects more
> > aggressively cacheable then small ones.
> >
> >
> > Oleg
> >
> >
> >
>
> Cheers
> Steve
>
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Received on Tue Apr 13 1999 - 06:40:10 MDT