Re: [squid-users] http accelerator

According to RFC 3040 "Internet Web Replication and Caching Taxonomy",
both are the same and should be called "surrogates"
        http://ietf.org/rfc/rfc3040.txt

Alex.

On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Brian wrote:

> On Wednesday 01 August 2001 06:54 pm, ksamy@emmperative.com wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am new to caching. I want to know what is reverse proxy and HTTP
> > accelerator? Is both are same?
>
> They are the basically the same. From what I've seen, 'reverse proxy'
> usually refers to a process running on a separate box, while 'httpd
> accelerator' usually refer to a process on the same box.
>
> HTTP accels are basically proxies on the server side, instead of the
> client side. For instance, when you connect to one of our sites, you
> actually connect to a squid server which may pass your request to one of
> our real web servers.
>
> Squid takes a lot of heat off of our web servers. In addition to the
> obvious (squid caches popular requests), persistent connection are much
> cheaper on squid than apache, and it buffers a small amount (16k by
> default, but a couple of our's buffer 2MB), so requests don't tie up
> apache while they're sent.
>
> -- Brian
>
Received on Wed Aug 01 2001 - 17:51:36 MDT