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Posted by CptDondo on 11/14/06 17:24
Benjamin Niemann wrote:
> Proxies like squid work on the protocol level (HTTP) - they do not care what
> kind of data is being transferred.
> If you are using HTTP to fetch the XML data, then you should be able to use
> any generic HTTP proxy including squid.
> Just make sure that the data is cachable at all: proper HTTP headers, data
> is fetched using GET, not POST...
> You could install cronjobs on or near the proxy servers, which pull the data
> (via the proxy) and just drop it - to make sure the data is in the cache,
> when your client comes around. A simple bash script with lots
> of 'wget -O /dev/null http://...' might be sufficient.
That's a neat idea....
I don't control the client so I'll have to see if the XML-over-HTTP will
work, but at least I can talk intelligently to my (human) client about
the issue.... :-)
--Yan
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