Re: [squid-users] Caching Web sites

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 09:52:07 +0100

Squid never does prefetching of any kind.

You may be confusing prefetching and pipelining or per-object readahead.
Which section of the book are you referring to?

Regards
Henrik

Andrew Reid wrote:

> Perhaps the answer is some sort of preemptive caching. For example,
> when I pull up freshmeat.net, Squid should automatically start
> downloading the images and banner ads before the client makes the
> request. Perhaps it could even cache some of the pages that
> freshmeat.net is directly linking to, n levels deep.
>
> Reading "Web Caching"[1], I almost got the impression that Squid does
> that already. I know that the book categorically points out individual
> commercial cache products that do so, but I'm really sure about
> squid. Perhaps hno could comment, as I'm not near any Squid code at
> the present moment.
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