RE: [squid-users] Predictive caching?

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Chris Wilcox [mailto:not_rich_yet@hotmail.com]
>
> > Just had a suggestion about a project I'm working on: can we provide
> > predictive caching? I know it's possible to use cron and
> > wget to schedule
> > downloads of pages to keep them in the cache, but is there
> > any way I can get
> > squid to follow links on pages it downloads so they load even
> > quicker when
> > requested by users?
>
>I don't think so, but it seems like this is the sort of thing you could
>easily tinker with as a seperate program. Here's my thought: Write your
>own very basic proxy, maybe in Perl or some other interpreted language for
>the proof-of-concept version so it's easy to tweak. Point your browser at
>this proxy, and point your proxy at Squid. Then your experimental proxy
>can
>follow the links in the page, after passing it on to the web browser, and
>Squid will automatically cache whatever it retrieves. Make sense?
>
>If you decide to play with this, keep us posted. I find the idea pretty
>interesting.

hehe, I wasn't thinking along the lines of writing my own proxy or software.
Reading into it, I don't think it would actually have the overwhelming
impact on speed which it may appear it has when it was first mentioned to
me.

Thanks for the reply though,

Regards,

nry

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