RE: [squid-users] Squid buffering slow connections (Ted Mielczarek are you still alive?)

I saw that Ted Mielczarek wrote a paper on this - is he still on the list?
His email address bounces.

(see http://franklin.ece.lehigh.edu/~tam4/csc450/final-paper.html)

Regards, Arje

-----Original Message-----
From: Marc Elsen [mailto:marc.elsen@imec.be]
Sent: 22 October 2002 16:06
To: Arjé Cahn
Cc: squid-users@squid-cache.org
Subject: Re: [squid-users] Squid buffering slow connections

Arjé Cahn wrote:
>
> Marc,
>
> Squid works perfectly in every way - but I'm stuck with this slow connection. You don't suppose there is another way of doing this?
>

 I think there is a program called 'client' in the distribution which
 can be used to 'prefetch' objects.
 I have never used it myself though.

 M.

> Arje
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marc Elsen [mailto:marc.elsen@imec.be]
> Sent: 22 October 2002 09:42
> To: Arjé Cahn
> Cc: squid-users@squid-cache.org
> Subject: Re: [squid-users] Squid buffering slow connections
>
> Arjé Cahn wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > My webserver is behind a slow (DSL) connection that sometimes even fails to connect. I would like to use Squid as an accelerator located at a hosting farm.
> >
> > Can I get Squid to do this:
> >
> > - Request for foo.html comes in from client
> > - Squid immediately sends cached foo.html
>
> Will happen if the object has been fetched once, and can
> be considered fresh at the time a subsequent request for that
> object is made through SQUID.
>
> > - If needed, Squid refreshes the page in the background (but keeps sending the cached version to clients while doing this)
>
> Squid doesn't do this. Only upon a client request for that object.
>
> > - If the connection between Squid and the webserver fails, it keeps trying for X times
> > - When the refreshed page is in, Squid overwrites previously cached version
>
> Squid doesn't do this, because the whole process of fetching a possible
> new version of an object is client driven.
>
> >
> > The main idea is that Squid buffers the slow or failed request BUT KEEPS SENDING cached pages. I have the feeling that this is a standard Squid concept, but I can't find it in the manuals! What do I have to do?
>
> Your feeling is wrong, this that is not a standard Squid concept.
> If a cache becomes an active device in the context of what it's job
> is,
> it may defeat it's purpose, that is reducing Internet traffic.
>
> In principle the process is client driven , making the cache 'silent'
> if no objects need to be fetched.
>
> M.
>
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Arje
>
> --
>
> 'Time is a consequence of Matter thus
> General Relativity is a direct consequence of QM
> (M.E. Mar 2002)

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