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Re: Proxy support in apache



On 10 Aug 1997, Alexander L. Belikoff wrote:

> Amos Shapira <amos@gezernet.co.il> writes:
> 
> > I wanted Apache 1.2 for that reason too (in addition to others,
> > of course), but under Debian.  A very good advice I got was to
> > simply install squid.  It is supposed to be better than apache
> > when proxy in concerned.  Was a snap to install (now still
> > in experimental stages, until we get our dedicated proxy
> > server up and running) and can cooperate with other squid servers
> > in your network neightborhood to share the cache.
> > 
> 
> I am running SQUID. However, I didn't know that Apache proxy support
> was worse than the one by squid. I don't need all those cache sharing
> bells-n-whistles. I just thought it'd be better to have one hungry
> process (apache) instead of two.

Squid is lightyears ahead of apache in technology, the proxy support for
apache is maybe usefull for some of it's URL redirecting tricks, nothing
else.


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