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Re: Does anyone know of a web buffer type of thing?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chuck Mead)
Wed Oct 21 20:59:05 1998
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 20:57:24 -0400 (EWT)
From: Chuck Mead <chuck@moongroup.com>
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On Tue, 20 Oct 1998, dsb3 wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Oct 1998, Chuck Mead wrote:
>
> >On Tue, 20 Oct 1998, Merten, Joe wrote:
> >
> >> Can anyone point me to something for Linux that will....
> >>
> >> I'm planning on setting up a linux box to act as a firewall for my small
> >> home network. I would like something that could follow links that one of
> >> the workstations requested and sort of "pre-fetch" the links on the page
> >> (while the workstation user is reading the page) so that when the
> >> workstation requested the next page it would already be downloaded through
> >> the modem and ready to present to the workstation.
> >
> >Squid is the closest thing I can think of.
> >
>
> I still use wwwoffle, written by Andrew Bishop. I've not found an RPM for
> it yet. (might have to package it up myself)
>
> It won't pre-fetch (does squid do that?)
Nope... I don't know of anything that's "smart" enough to pre-fetch.
> but will cache off-line, and you
> can specify directory trees to get in the background.
>
> - dave
>
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