jason andrade wrote:
> Apologies if this is an ignorant question, but where do mirror sites fit
> in the scheme of things.. are they just less sophisticated reverse proxies?
Good question.
I thought mirrors was covered as one subset of the "surrogate" concept,
but it seems this has been narrowed down to only cover "reverse proxies"
and similar constructs, with a vague reference to something undefined
called "delegates", or the wording is a bit too dim.
If the goal is still that mirrors are one form of surrogates then
perhaps the last sentence should be reworded and maybe moved down to the
"reverse proxy" section...
Change proposal:
Devices commonly known as "reverse proxies" and "(origin) server
accelerators" are both more properly defined as a type of
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surrogates acting as caching http->http gateways to replicate
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the content.
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-- Henrik Nordström
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