[ILUG] Squid vs Apache2

[John Moylan]

I think the caching stuff in Apache got a complete overhaul in 2.2.
Pre 2.2 it was not very efficient.

J

On Jan 4, 2008 11:40 AM, Brian Scanlan <brian.scanlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
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