Re: [squid-users] Update Accelerator, Squid and Windows Update Caching

On lör, 2008-10-11 at 00:30 +1300, Amos Jeffries wrote:
> > In case Squid cannot do windows update caching by its self, I'm also
> > looking at integrating Update Accelerator
> > (http://update-accelerator.advproxy.net/) script with standard squid
> > 2.6 and wondered if anyone else had any experience of this.
> > The update accelerator script is just a perl wrapper around wget which
> > is configured as a Squid url_rewrite_program. It's not clear to me
> > what this script is doing that Squid wouldn't do by its self.
>
> Strange indeed.

Nothing strange. It's simply a persistent cache with no respect for HTTP
cache rules. Impemented by using wget to mirror the files onto an Apache
web server, combined with an url rewriter helper to make Squid fetch the
objects from there instead of microsoft.

Regards
Henrik