Re: push caching and squid

Vikas wrote:

> i believe that squid servers use http to retrieve the objects.
> what problems would it create if these pages were allowed to be
> multicast instead of unicast, apart from reliability.

Not many except that multicast transfer of HTTP is not defined.

If you have some defined protocol that deliers objects (in a reliable
and secure manner) then is it not very hard to plug this protocol into
Squid. As far as I know the current storage management is not very
dependent on having a active client.

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Henrik Nordström
Spare time Squid Hacker