[squid-users] Re: EXTERNAL: [squid-users] NEWBIE Q: httpd_accel_single_host?

True, but in my case, I don't want ALL users to use the proxy. Only users
in a certain geography to cache content that's coming "across the pond".

Thus, my application is "smart enough" to know where the user physically is
located on the WAN, and will ask for the content directly from the
original/source if they are "local" to that datacenter; it will ask for it
from Squid if they are "far away".

I also don't have control over DNS entries (I can request them, but again,
the previous) sentence.

Good questions, though.

Thanks for the reply,
AJ

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bucci, David G" <david.g.bucci_at_lmco.com>
To: "AJ Weber" <aweber_at_comcast.net>; <squid-users_at_squid-cache.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 4:53 PM
Subject: RE: EXTERNAL: [squid-users] NEWBIE Q: httpd_accel_single_host?

> I'm a novice (and maybe I shouldn't speak out of turn), but I wonder why
> you can't simply do sstandard reverse proxying, e.g., name your proxy
> server "original.org" in DNS, rename your slow web server "backend.org",
> and do a simple accel config:
>
> http_port 80 accel defaultsite=original.org cache_peer backend.org parent
> 80 0 no-query originserver name=be acl all src all cache_peer_access be
> allow all http_access allow all
>
>
> Then your users would request http://original.org/index.html, which on a
> miss Squid would retrieve from backend.org, but on a hit, serve up
> directly.
>
> No?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: AJ Weber [mailto:aweber_at_comcast.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 2:07 PM
> To: squid-users_at_squid-cache.org
> Subject: EXTERNAL: [squid-users] NEWBIE Q: httpd_accel_single_host?
>
> Does anyone have any config examples, tips or FAQ about simulating the
> "old"
> (pre 2.6, at least) single-host acceleration (i.e. as was done with the
> directive in the subject)?
>
> I have Duane Wessels' O'Reilly book here, and am trying to build a very
> specific server accelerator for across a slow, WAN link, but just for a
> single back-end host. (Chapter 15, pg 307, if you're now following-along
> ;) )
>
> It being very specific, I can get the clients to request content directly
> from the Squid host (instead of the original), but then need Squid to know
> how to replace the host-portion of the URL for cache-misses to get the
> content.
>
> So instead of my client requesting www.original.org/index.htm it will
> already have determined on the client-side that it is over a slow link and
> instead request www.proxy.org/index.htm . Of course, the proxy is just
> Squid, and it should check for a cache hit and return if possible; if no
> cache hit, Squid has to know to send the request to www.original.org by
> some configuration option.
>
> If I can explain further my specific needs, I would be happy to. Please
> ask!
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.
>
> -AJ
>
>
Received on Wed Aug 04 2010 - 21:02:32 MDT