Re: [squid-users] Question

On 24.01.08 12:28, Adam Fyne wrote:
> Here at work we have programs that run on computers that ask for large
> files from our storage computer(s) (also on our network).
> Instead of copying the file locally each time for every computer - we
> would like to find out if we could use Squid for this purpose.
> On the first time - squid would copy the desired file to the computer's
> cache (could be Gigabytes) and then on subsequent requests the required
> file will be taken from the cache by the proxy,
> and not copied again.
> Can we use Squid for this and if so - how so ?

either each user will have squid on his local computer and access to the
file will be done via HTTP, or simpy forget the optimization.

Is there slow link between users' computers and fileserver, adn do you have
some computer with fast link to users?

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