Metalink and Proxies

[Anthony Bryan]

I emailed the author of the IntelligentMirror squid plugin. he thinks
it wouldn't be too hard to work in metalink. the feature would make
any URLs in a metalink the same, so if a file was already in the cache
it could be used...instead of being seen as a totally new file, since
it's a new URL.

http://fedora.co.in/intelligentmirror

"I have been following squid development regularly (at least the part
in which I am interested) and they have introduced a new directive in
squid-2.7 known as StoreUrlRewrite (storeurl_rewrite_program). Using
this directive you can instruct squid to cache url A
(http://abc.com/foo/bar/version/crap.rpm) as url B
(http://proxy.fedora.co.in/intelligentmirror/crap.rpm). In simple
words you can direct squid to cache any url as any other url without
any extra efforts."

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