Book description
On the World Wide Web, speed and efficiency are vital. Users have little patience for slow web pages, while network administrators want to make the most of their available bandwidth. A properly designed web cache reduces network traffic and improves access times to popular web sites--a boon to network administrators and web users alike. Web Caching hands you all the technical information you need to design, deploy, and operate an effective web caching service. It starts with the basics of how web caching works, from the HTTP headers that govern cachability to cache validation and replacement algorithms. Topics covered in this book include:
Designing an effective cache solution
Configuring web browsers to use a cache
Setting up a collection of caches that can talk to each other
Configuring an interception cache or proxy
Monitoring and fine-tuning the performance of a cache
Configuring web servers to cooperate with web caches
Benchmarking cache products
The book also covers the important political aspects of web caching, including privacy, intellectual property, and security issues. Internet service providers, large corporations, or educational institutions--in short, any network that provides connectivity to a wide variety of users--can reap enormous benefit from running a well-tuned web caching service. Web Caching shows you how to do it right.
Table of contents
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Web Caching
- Preface
- 1. Introduction
- 2. How Web Caching Works
- 3. Politics of Web Caching
- 4. Configuring Cache Clients
- 5. Interception Proxying and Caching
- 6. Configuring Servers to Work with Caches
- 7. Cache Hierarchies
- 8. Intercache Protocols
- 9. Cache Clusters
- 10. Design Considerations for Caching Services
- 11. Monitoring the Health of Your Caches
- 12. Benchmarking Proxy Caches
- A. Analysis of Production Cache Trace Data
- B. Internet Cache Protocol
- C. Cache Array Routing Protocol
- D. Hypertext Caching Protocol
- E. Cache Digests
- F. HTTP Status Codes
- G. U.S.C. 17 Sec. 512. Limitations on Liability Relating to Material Online
- List of Acronyms
- H. Bibliography
- Index
- Colophon
Product information
- Title: Web Caching
- Author(s):
- Release date: June 2001
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9781565925366
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