[10469] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Mirror Negotiation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Hamilton)
Wed Dec 11 05:31:41 1996
To: Chanda Dharap <chanda@mowgli.prpa.philips.com>
Cc: Peter J Churchyard <pjc@tis.com>, www-talk@w3.org
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 10 Dec 1996 10:12:51 PST."
<199612101812.KAA24675@PRPA.Philips.COM>
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 10:20:22 +0000
From: Martin Hamilton <martin@mrrl.lut.ac.uk>
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
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Chanda Dharap writes:
| I remember there were studies that showed proxy caching was not much
| of an improvement. Cannot remember references right away, but one of
| them was DEC's Proxy caching study , it appeared in one of the first
| WWW conferences.
Well, bandwidth savings of up to 60% are really terrible if you're
(say) in the business of selling bandwidth... Makes those pesky Web
pages download a damn sight faster though!
| Has anyone given thought to some sort of a hierarchy of caches ? Maybe
| topical caches as opposed to regional ? Caching could be a combination
| of server-side Proxy caching as well as caching at the hierarchy.
Start at <URL:http://www.nlanr.net/Cache/>
| ??
!!
:-))
Martin
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