For this I think a slightly cusomized Apache or even CERN httpd proxy is
more suitable than Squid.
Fir this application you really want a proxy who is using the filesystem
to store the web tree without a separate index.
Regards
Henrik Nordström
Squid Developer
tpeczkow wrote:
>
> Warm greetings! This is Todd Peczkowski of the WiderNet Project. A request is located in this email so please keep reading. We just found your website detailing the setup of a Squid proxy server. We are a non-profit organization building digital capacity at universities in Africa. To find out more about all of the wonderful things we are doing in Nigeria please visit our website at www.widernet.org We are currently working with over 13 universities in Nigeria. This includes connecting them to the Internet and building networks on campuses along with training technicians and coaching decision makers.
>
> We are looking for proxy server solution and we believe Squid may be it. However, we would like to put up a very different sort of proxy server. Our ideal proxy server would never time out web pages, it would be able to store terabytes of data on a collection of several servers connected to it, it would allow everyone to surf through the cached documents and only people with special priveleges access to the Internet, it would be able to store surfed websites, broadcasted websites, and websites copied to it from CDs and DVDs but still have
> the exact URL as the real website out on the Internet. Could you please advise on if the above is possible? Your help would be much appreciated. Please pretend that you have a 64K connection to share with about 50 others and on top of that you would like to make all accessed websites available to up to 10,000 students on a wide area network. Imagine you also have the capacity to copy terabytes of websites and medical documents in the United States and take them
> to your isolated wide area network on DVDs and CDs. Could you or would you still use Squid for this?
>
> Thank you for any help you can give me. I hope you are able to help us out. Please feel free to forward this message to any Linux people you might now also who may get a kick out of solving our problem. I know they are out there somewhere. I'm studying to be one myself.
>
> Thanks again,
> Todd Peczkowski
>
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