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In newsgroup uk.comp.os.linux,demon.tech.unix
Paul Richards <pauldoo@dunvegan1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> I have a dialup box and just for fun I'm thinking of setting up a
> http/ftp proxy server.  It would be partly usefull in that I would have
> an inter-user web-cache.  I have a few questions though:

I would suggest that you look at WWWOFFLE if you have a dialup
connection.  You could use something like squid but that won't allow
you to browse while offline, record pages for later download, index
the files that are cached, search the cache (using htdig search
engine), fetch files on a regular basis and many other fun things.

> If I download something then cancel, will the proxy server thing stop
> downloading too?

It is configurable, the default in WWWOFFLE is that it will continue
if the file is 80% or more complete or smaller than 1 kBytes in total.

> Does the proxy send the file to the browser as it's being downloaded or
> does it sent it to the browser once the whole file is done?

As it is being downloaded.

> Can I get my proxy to use my ISP's web-cache?

You can or not, it is configurable in many different ways.

-- 
Andrew.
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Andrew M. Bishop                             amb@gedanken.demon.co.uk
                                      http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/

WWWOFFLE users page:
        http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/wwwoffle/version-2.5/user.html