Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 10:40:39 -0400 From: gwh@spiders.com (Gene W Homicki) To: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>, Satoshi Asami <asami@cs.berkeley.edu> Cc: pst@shockwave.com, CVS-commiters@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: CVSROOT modules Message-ID: <199509261440.KAA04264@www.ambook.org> In-Reply-To: John Fieber's message as of Sep 26, 9:11
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+--- | Although I presonally think Apache is better, I agree that the CERN | server should be in ports. There are many people who still use it. (but | no, I'm not offering my services as a maintainer!) +--- A big reason to keep the CERN server around is that its not only a WWW server, it it is a proxy server. To my knowledge, none of the other freely available servers can act as a caching proxy, which is important in some enviornments...including some ISPs. --Gene PS. For those not familiar with proxy server, here's a short description of what it does: user HTTP, Gopher, and FTP requests can be directed at the proxy sever. The proxy then fetches the document, caches it locally, and returns a copy to the requesting client. If another client requests the document soon after the first (and the document hasn't expired or been bumped out of the proxy servers cache), the document is delivered from the proxy servers cache, rather than fetching a copy of the original. For a large ISP, this can be a big win on conserving bandwidth. -- Gene W. Homicki gwh@spiders.com Objective Consulting, Inc. http://www.spiders.com/ Internet Presence Design voice: +1 914.353.3511
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