[10475] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Mirror Negotiation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anselm Baird_Smith)
Mon Dec 16 04:47:53 1996
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 10:33:51 +0100 (MET)
From: Anselm Baird_Smith <abaird@www43.inria.fr>
To: Chanda Dharap <chanda@mowgli.PRPA.Philips.COM>
Cc: Peter J Churchyard <pjc@tis.com>, www-talk@w3.org
In-Reply-To: <199612100454.UAA20620@PRPA.Philips.COM>
Reply-To: Anselm Baird-Smith <abaird@w3.org>
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
Chanda Dharap writes:
>
> >Isn't mirroring just a special case of caching?
>
> Maybe in the implementation, but not in functionality.
>
> Mirroring (replicating) is geared towards improved availability while
> caching is geared towards improved performance.
You're probably right, however, I have a small hack in Jigsaw proxy,
that makes it act as a mirror, check
http://www.w3.og/pub/WWW/Jigsaw
and its MirrorDirectory resource. It will act as the origin server,
reusing all the HTTP/1.1 caching proxy code.
Write a small robot that goes through this mirrror to access the whole
origin server content, now I guess you have a nice mirror :-)
Anselm.
