Re: [squid-users] Reverse proxy non-performance benefits

From: Henrik K <hege@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 11:13:04 +0200

On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 10:12:32PM -0500, Chris Woodfield wrote:
>
> On Feb 6, 2008, at 3:44 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I see Apache can also do reverse proxy, which was surprising to me,
>>> or
>>> is it not quite the same thing?
>>
>> Sort of. :)
>>
>
> Apache's ProxyPass module performs similar proxying functionality, but
> without squid's caching abilities, so you won't get any traffic-
> offloading benefits, which really is squid's raison d'etre - the other
> benefits Adrian mentioned are more or less side benefits.

Is Apache's caching so bad it's not worth mentioning? It definately has the
ability.
Received on Thu Feb 07 2008 - 02:13:10 MST

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