on Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 08:01:23PM +1030, David Purton (dcpurton@chariot.net.au) wrote: > On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > on Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 09:42:29PM +1030, David Purton (dcpurton@chariot.net.au) wrote: > > > > > > Hi, I'm looking to set up a caching www proxy on my dialup machine. > > > > > > Can anybody recommend a lightweight option here? > > > > > > I looked at squid, but it seems a bit of an overkill for what I want. > > > > Define your needs. You can configure Squid to your needs (though I find > > it's best to run it on a dedicated system -- it works better with more > > memory and disk, and can tend to slaughter a desktop). > > > > wwwoffl really answers a different problem. > > > > I use a number of web browsers on my home dialup desktop system, and > would just prefer it to cache stuff in a slighly more efficient way than > what it would do if just using each web broswer cache separately. > > Squid seemed to offer much more than what I needed. > > I installed wwwoffle, and it seems to do what I want. > > Anything that I should know, but don't :) ? I looked at wwoffle. It's intended for _offline_ browsing, not sure how it works in online mode. I found it something of an impediment. Squid works fairly well for me, as described above. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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