Re: push caching and squid

> Another way to do this is to :
>
> o send the squid that you want to push the object to an ICP_OP_QUERY
> o if it returns HIT then it already has it !
> o if it returns MISS then do a HTTP GET request to it.
> o the squid then sends out ICP_OP_QUERY for that object, you then respond
> really fast with a HIT and the squid comes and gets it
> o you have to bit bucket the same object it sends back though.
>

 i believe that squid servers use http to retrieve the objects.
 what problems would it create if these pages were allowed to be multicast
 instead of unicast, apart from reliability.

 thanks!
Received on Tue Jul 29 2003 - 13:15:54 MDT