Squid proxy caching server (monthly posting) ============================================ Posted-By: auto-faq 3.1.1.2 Archive-name: www/squid-info Squid Proxy Cache Information (Monthly Posting) ----------------------------------------------- * What is Squid? Squid is a high-performance caching proxy server for web clients. It supports FTP, gopher, and HTTP protocols. Squid servers can operate in a hierarchical fashion. A server can have any number of parents or siblings. Caches in a hierarchy use the ICP (Internet Cache Protocol) to query each other for discovery of cached objects. Squid is available in source form under the GNU Public License. It can be built on most modern Unix operating systems that have an ANSI C compiler. * Why is Squid a good thing? Caching proxy servers… Address : http://squid.nlanr.net/Squid/ Year : 1997 Archived: first capture 1997 Announced: 26 February 1997, by its own author the description above is theirs Source : comp.infosystems.www.announce, 1996-97 Tags : Software, Usenet Announcement ------------------------------------------------------------------ gopher://hp84.com/ | https://ge97.com/ .