One of the HTTP Reverse Proxy Servers that partially implements ESI is Varnish Cache. This HTTP Cache Server was originally thought out by its creators, Poul-Henning Kamp, Anders Berg and Dag-Erling Smørgrav, as being a highly needed [5] replacement for Squid, a well-known HTTP forward proxy server (client proxy). It was possible to make Squid work as a Reverse Proxy (server proxy), but it was very difficult to set it up to act in this way.
The original meeting that led to the creation of Varnish Cache took place in Oslo in February of 2006. The basic concept behind the project was to find a way to quickly manipulate bytes that would be taken from passing network traffic and a way to determine what, where and when to cache those ...
