[ILUG] Squid vs Apache2

[Brian Scanlan]

On Jan 4, 2008 11:25 AM, Robert Sweetnam <linux at sweetnam.eu> wrote:
> It depends on what you want to proxy. Squid is a caching proxy and is
> usually used to connect clients on a network to the internet. Apache
> mod_proxy can be used for the same purpose without the caching
> functionality.

Apache will cache if you tell it to.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_proxy.html
"The forward proxy can also use caching (as provided by mod_cache) to
reduce network usage."

Brian.