[squid-users] Re: Non-permanent Internet Connection Question

On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 07:36:05 -0600
Blake Grover <blake@eznettools.com> wrote:

> We are working on a new project where we will distribute Linux
> machines in different areas that will be connected to the Internet.
> But these machines might not have a Internet connection always. We
> would like these machines to show certain web pages from a web server
> on a loop. For example I have 7 pages that jump to one to another
> after 7 - 10 seconds. But if the Internet connection goes down we
> want squid to keep showing the loop of HTML pages until the
> connection get restored and then squid could update the pages in the
> cache.

You could write a script to switch squid into offline mode when the
connection goes down, but there will always be race condition problems
with this.

Have you considered running local webservers instead?
Received on Fri Sep 21 2007 - 11:42:06 MDT