Re: FTP accelerator

Henrik,

what is meant is that Squid does not implement an ftp interface on the
cilent side, just on the origin server side, yes? Any feelings how hard
it might be given the current internal implementation of an ftp client?

Roger.

----- Original Message -----
From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@squid-cache.org>
Date: Friday, November 2, 2001 6:14 am
Subject: Re: FTP accelerator

> Only that Squid does not implement the FTP protocol, and that FTP
> is a
> bit tricker to cache than HTTP due to the ambigous statefullness
> of the
> protocol.
>
>
> Note: When Squid caches ftp:// URLs, it does so as a HTTP proxy, which
> is both stateless and non-ambigous.
>
> Regards
> Henrik
>
>
> Andres Kroonmaa wrote:
> >
> > It has got me some time ago that Squid could be quite efficient
> > dedicated FTP accelerator for some remote site, or even local
> > anon-only FTP server.
> > Is there anything fundamentally wrong with this idea?
> >
> > ------------------------------------
> > Andres Kroonmaa <andre@online.ee>
> > CTO, Microlink Online
> > Tel: 6501 731, Fax: 6501 725
> > Pärnu mnt. 158, Tallinn,
> > 11317 Estonia
>
 
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