Re: [squid-users] Accelerating an FTP site with Squid

Squid will cache ftp...it just can't proxy ftp for standard ftp clients
(Squid is a proxy cache for HTTP clients, and it happens to provide
proxying from HTTP to a few other protocols).

Brian wrote:
> Squid will only proxy FTP -- it does not cache it.
>
> Assuming this is anonymous FTP, I would suggest moving it to HTTP and
> using squid. I can personally attest that this works quite well.
>
> -- Brian
>
> On Thursday 07 March 2002 05:03 pm, Ray Taft wrote:
>
>>Howdy Folks!
>>
>>Could someone point me in the direction for the DOC or How To for
>>accelerating an FTP site with Squid?
>>
>>I have a pretty popular FTP site, but only 15 or 20 files are accessed
>>heavily. I would like accelerate the FTP site with a squid server
>>running on a faster box, and alleviate some strain on the origin FTP
>>server.
>>
>>Any pointers or suggestions would be appreciated!
>>
>>Best Regards,
>>
>>TIA
>>
>>Ray

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