[H-GEN] Squid addon

[Christopher Biggs]

(Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs Christopher Biggs <chris at stallion.oz.au>)

Ben Fowler <b1.fowler at student.qut.edu.au> moved upon the face of the 'Net and spake thusly:

> 
> > whats the chance that there will be two tarballs of exactly the same
> > name and size, that wouldn't be the same file? 
> 
> Non-zero.  While the chances of this happening would be very small,
> there could be a possibility still, of the proxy server deciding to hand
> you a completely different file than what you asked for.
> 

What could be feasible is to *configure* a proxy-server to know that

        replicated1.somedomain.pleasenotdotcom and
        replicated2.somedomain.pleasenotdotcom 

are in fact identical and to unify their caches.   I imagine doing
this for say the top 20 big sites (search engines, news services,
microshaft etc) could be useful.

Fsck knows if anyone has actually done it.

cjb.

p.s. Having a proxy server do this automatically for any two random
servers would of course be a Bad Thing.

p.p.s. WTF is "we're the dot in dot.com" supposed to mean?  I can only
        suppose some marketroid at Incandescent Heavenly Body Inc.
        must reckon the sun shines out of their dot.

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| Christopher J. Biggs -|- R & D Software Engineer --  Stallion Technologies |
| chris at stallion.oz.au -|- If it isn't broken, I just haven't touched it yet |
\---------veni vidi nuclei deceiri --- I came, I saw, I dumped core----------/

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