[95954] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Does anyone know of a web buffer type of thing?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John D. Hardin)
Thu Oct 22 13:15:09 1998
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 10:02:21 -0700 (PDT)
From: "John D. Hardin" <jhardin@wolfenet.com>
To: "'redhat-list@redhat.com'" <redhat-list@redhat.com>
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On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, Chuck Mead wrote:
> 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.
wget will fetch a site by following links, and if you pointed it at
your Squid cache it would populate the Squid cache as well.
No, I haven't done this myself... :)
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