Running the cache engine as a transparent proxy is definitely not desirable for an ISP since all http requests coming from all clients will be masqueraded by the proxy; i.e. the request will be seen as coming from squid than from the actual client.
why is it not desirable? VSNL saves a bundle on bandwidth this way...the only people worried abt this shld be the web traffic analysis people...their servers get lesser hits!
Please enlighten me on this. Major ISP's like VSNL etc. must be having some kind of caching mechanism. How do they do it then?
VSNL uses NetCache...havent looked into how that solves the port 80 problem..i myself faced this when i tried to put squid in front of tomcat...wccp wont dance with 8080!!
regds, kishor
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