HTTP Proxy

[Derek Broughton]

Florian Diesch wrote:

> Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> 
>> Florian Diesch wrote:
>>
>>> Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I have a satellite modem, and it's not uncommon for me to have no
>>>> connection to the Internet (eg, this won't be going out for some time,
>>>> as we haven't had a network connection for a week).
>>>>
>>>> I want an HTTP proxy that is smart enough to return cached pages any
>>>> time it can't find the Internet, but all the proxies I've tried either
>>>> need to be manually switched to "offline",
>>> 
>>> If it first tries to fetch the page from the net that means you have
>>> to wait for the DNS timeout on every page when you don't have
>>> net. IMHO that's close to unusable.
>>
>> Huh?  That's what it should be doing anyway - and it _is_ unusable, now,
>> because what I get is a long wait for a DNS timeout, and then _no_ page
>> rather than the cache page.
> 
> A proxy in offline mode doesn't need to try to connect the web server
> and so avoids waiting for the DNS timeout.

Which was why I was specifically looking for a proxy that was capable of
putting itself in offline mode when it couldn't find the Internet. 

Unfortunately I might have left this too late - I just got a major upgrade
today that promises to eliminate most if not all of my outages.  We'll
see...
-- 
derek