Re: HTML analysis and prefetching

Thanks for the info Alex.

It does help.

John

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 3:56 PM, Alex Rousskov
<rousskov_at_measurement-factory.com> wrote:
> On 06/15/2011 12:29 PM, John Craws wrote:
>
>> Is there a standard, recent way to have squid somehow analyze HTML and
>> prefetch (some of) the files that are being linked to?
>>
>> I've seen the following but wondered if there was anything else as it
>> looks rather old.
>>
>> http://devel.squid-cache.org/projects.html#prefetching
>> http://veloso.org/SquidConfig/SquidConfig.html
>> http://packages.debian.org/unstable/web/squid-prefetch
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>
> Hi John,
>
>    I do not think there is anything standard in this area and as your
> examples above illustrate, there are many ways to support prefetch.
>
> If you are going to write something from scratch and care about
> performance and compactness of the solution, I would recommend extending
> eCAP API to send "prefetch requests" from the adapter back to the
> hosting application such as Squid.
>
> This way you can have an adapter that focuses on prefetching logic
> without bloating Squid code with content analysis.
>
>
> HTH,
>
> Alex.
>
Received on Wed Jun 15 2011 - 20:01:50 MDT