Re: Using a squid cache as a read only cache

G'day, thanks for the reply.

> > I was just wondering about the possibility of using an existing
> squid
> > setup as a read-only cache for users who want to browse the web
> without
> > incurring a volume bill.
> >
> > Is is possible to have squid listen on two ports for connections,
> say
> > 8080 and 8090, and if it receives a request on 8080 it fetches the
> > document (if it is not in cache) but if it receives a request on
> 8090
> > then it does not fetch the documnet if it is not in cache. You
> could
> > obviously patch the source code, but is their any other way of doing
> it?
> >
> Two possibles:
> 1) put the read-only users on a subnet of their own and only give that
> subnet
> sibling style access (ie no miss access). this means they are locked
> into
> read only for their entire session.
> 2) (better) run a proxy - ie no caching, just pure pass thru - on
> another
> IP address that proxies back into your main cache, this IP is not
> given
> miss access. this allows them to pick and choose between real and
> read-only
> just by switching proxy hosts.

The second option is the one that I would like to do, what would this
second proxy be?

Thanks

Tristan Lewis
Received on Thu Jul 10 1997 - 05:28:12 MDT