Re: [squid-users] question on caching objects and cache storage

Arindam Haldar wrote:

> Squid developers, this is just a thought, how about a prefecting(admin)
> option in squid ?.. for eg to tell squid to prefect www.foo.org with
> depth 5 in every <n> days at <x> time of the day ?

Such option would be quite dangerous
 a) It very easily consumes a whole lot more bandwidth than intended
 b) Most site operators very much dislikes such use of their sites

> the idea behind is that the request for www.foo.org being serve by squid
> without going to net in the duration of before <n> days. this might/will
> improve caching performance...

What you can do today is to set up a local mirror of the site, and then
use a redirector to send your users there instead of the original site.
Probably preferred method of doing this.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Fri Jan 03 2003 - 04:30:05 MST