On Thu, 3 Nov 2011 20:11:35 +0100 (CET), bernd-dus wrote:
Hi Squid-Users,
I wonder wether it would be possible to setup a Squid cache 'inside'
a webservice.
Amongst others a client sends two URLs to a (remote) webservice.
The webservice retrieves the data from the URLs, processes the data
and sends the resulting file to the client.
The Squid proxy should cache the data of the remote URL-servers (and
the result file) 'inside' the webservice.
The answer depends on whether the web service supports using a proxy.
It also depends a bit on what type of "processes the data"? Squid is
designed to avoid filtering and manipulation of content itself, by
sending the traffic to other (ICAP, eCAP) services which exclusively do
that type of action on it.
So depending on the type of processing and capabilities of the web
service. Squid itself may be the frontend decision maker service or the
backend cache service.
Amos
