Re: [announce] gnome-proxy

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 09:02 -0500, Nathaniel McCallum wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 13:54 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > I don't know exactly what kind of info we can figure out, but at the
> > very least we should be able to handle the cases you mention above.
> 
> direct/none == "always cache"
> manual      == "cache for this protocol" (ie. http/https/ftp)
> PAC/WPAD    == "never cache"
> 
> The reason you never cache for PACs is that they are sometimes used for
> load balancing, timed access (ie. 8-5), etc. Yes, horrible I know.

Is it possible to do some limited amount of caching. Say with a
time-to-live so you cache the resuts for a few seconds at least?

I guess its not really possible since the pacs are freeform javascript.
Suck...

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