- From: Assar Westerlund <assar@pdc.kth.se>
- Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 02:09:00 GMT
- To: Multiple recipients of list <www-proxy@www10.w3.org>
Brian Behlendorf writes: > On Mon, 17 Apr 1995, N.G.Smith wrote: > > I would say that the choice of caching server directly affects the machine > > that you need to use. The CERN server is a forking server and with any > > significant traffic will destroy all but the fastest machine. I have > > recently been hearing about the Harvest cache, but have not had time to > > evaluate it myself. > > My understanding of the Harvest cache is that it sits in front of a > standard HTTP server to improve efficiency of raw content delivery for > that one server, rather than serve as a cache for all possible web > servers. It can function as an "httpd accelerator" or as a proxy object cache.
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