[squid-users] Duplicate files, content distribution networks

Are there any resources in Squid core or in the Squid community to help
cache duplicate files? Squid is very useful for building content
distribution networks, but how does Squid handle duplicate files from
content distribution networks when it is used as a forward proxy?

This is important to us because many download sites present users with a
simple download button that doesn't always send them to the same mirror.
Some users are redirected to mirrors that are already cached while other
users are redirected to mirrors that aren't. We use a caching proxy in a
rural village here in Rwanda to improve internet access, but users often
can't predict whether a download will take seconds, or hours, which is
frustrating

How does Squid handle files distributed from mirrors? Do you know of any
resources concerning forward proxies and download mirrors?
Received on Fri May 18 2012 - 07:29:20 MDT