[Nottingham] apache or squid for proxying?

[Martin]

Mike Cardwell wrote:
> Martin wrote:
> 
>> Anyone got an opinion on whether to use apache or squid as a 
>> (transparent) network proxy for http/https/ftp ?
>>
>> Advantages/disadvantages?
>>
>> And will that cache the damnably huge updates that a certain OS is often 
>> wont to download?
> 
> Can you actually use Apache to do that? I don't think mod_proxy would be 
> suitable... Is there some other module which would allow it?

Yep. There's a few modules in there now for proxying. I'm also going to 
play with webmin and hence apache + proxy modules is a nice idea rather 
than loading up yet another application.


> I would use squid over Apache for that purpose purely because squid is 
> designed to do exactly the job you're searching for.

Yes, my first thoughts were to use squid until I noticed that apache 
supposedly can do the same job now...


Shame about the Microsoft nefariousness that clobbers the caching idea...

Cheers,
Martin

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