| | SQUID Frequently Asked Questions: httpd-accelerator mode (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | This order of magnitude performance improvement on hits suggests that the cache can serve as an httpd accelerator, a cache configured to act as a site's primary httpd server (on port 80), forwarding references that miss to the site's real httpd (on port 81). |
 | | The cache serves references to cachable objects, such as HTML pages and GIFs, and the true httpd (on port 81) serves references to non-cachable objects, such as queries and cgi-bin programs. |
 | | One way is to leave your httpd running on port 80, but bind the httpd socket to a specific interface, namely the loopback interface. |
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