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[Leon Blackwell]

On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 05:36:23PM +0800, Bill Kenworthy wrote:
> I mainly use galeon and netscape to browse, with the
> others using IE - my "opinion" is that most browser caches suck big
> time.

Some do, some don't.  Running a caching proxy really makes the biggest
difference when you do a lot of browser switching.  Most of the browsers
won't share local caches, so having a shared proxy is essential.


> Also, if on a lan, make sure you use squid in transparent proxy mode so
> the little "<DELETED>" dont bypass it and screw up your nice network
> design! 

Or you could just block outgoing requests on port 80  :)


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