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Re[2]: ActCom Connection.



"Harvey J. Stein" <hjstein@MATH.HUJI.AC.IL> wrote:
> Evgeny Stambulchik writes:
>  > Has somebody among us run cern httpd on linux? 
> 
> I've done it, I do it, and I have a linux compiled copy at the office.
> However, I don't recommend using it!  This is because:
> 
>    1. Netscape can do its own caching, so we don't really need it for
>       speed.  The only advantage of httpd caching is that it could
>       keep 1 cache for the entire network (if all machines use the
>       machine with the modem as a proxy), whereas netscape keeps one
>       cache per user per machine.

That's right, even more: we can ajust netscape cache directory in the
'Preference' menu to be common for all users, somewhere on NFS-partition with
/tmp-like permissions. But it's only for Netscape, whereas httpd with cache can
serve ANY client. But if you think cern httpd is not good for that - ok...

Evgeny


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