On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 22:51, Andrew McNaughton wrote: > On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Del wrote: > > > (Seriously, through, does anyone actually ever use > > mod_proxy in apache?). > > Of course. It's vastly more versatile than squid, and sometimes that's > what you need. In particular it's commonly used in combination with > mod_rewrite and mod_perl to make a lightweight front end server which > handles all the image requests so the hulking mod_perl processes don't sit > around waiting to serving images to slow modem users.
Just for the record: squid does this just fine (and will cache those images at the same time). I'm dubious about 'vastly more versatile' - that quite unsubstantiated. Rob -- GPG key available at: <http://members.aardvark.net.au/lifeless/keys.txt>.
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