Caching proxy server setup

The caching proxy server stores cacheable content in a local cache before delivering it to the requester. It does not store all content, only specific cacheable content that meets its rules.

You can configure the caching proxy server to handle protocols such as HTTP, FTP, and Gopher. Examples of cacheable content include static Web pages and whole dynamic Web pages. Caching enables the caching proxy server to satisfy subsequent requests for the same content by delivering it directly from the local cache, which is much quicker than retrieving it again from the content host. For these test, the caching proxy server was configured to use memory.