HTTP Proxy

[Florian Diesch]

Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:

> Florian Diesch wrote:
>
>> Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
>> 
>>> I have a satellite modem, and it's not uncommon for me to have no
>>> connection to the Internet (eg, this won't be going out for some time, as
>>> we haven't had a network connection for a week).
>>>
>>> I want an HTTP proxy that is smart enough to return cached pages any time
>>> it can't find the Internet, but all the proxies I've tried either need to
>>> be manually switched to "offline",
>> 
>> If it first tries to fetch the page from the net that means you have
>> to wait for the DNS timeout on every page when you don't have
>> net. IMHO that's close to unusable.
>
> Huh?  That's what it should be doing anyway - and it _is_ unusable, now,
> because what I get is a long wait for a DNS timeout, and then _no_ page
> rather than the cache page.

A proxy in offline mode doesn't need to try to connect the web server
and so avoids waiting for the DNS timeout.



   Florian
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