Online Web Caching Resources

(in random order)

Duane Wessels' Information Resource Caching FAQ

Pei Cao's Links to Web Research and Related Sites

The Cache Now! campaign home page.

The W3C Propagation, Caching and Replication on the Web page.

WPI's WebBib Project offers an online bibliography of literature relevant to studying distributed systems topics as they relate to the World Wide Web.

Sharp's Super Proxy Script performs hashes on URLs at the client browser to distribute requests among multiple caches.

The Open Directory Project pages for Proxy Caching Servers.

The Relais Web Caches Reading List provides links to many useful sources of information.

Network World's caching resources page.

Also take a look at www.web-cache.com, which contains links to lots of web caching information.

The SORM page links to many proxy and anonymity resources, including sites with source code.

Caching and content delivery companies are working on a protocol between edge appliances and network-based applications in the ICAP Forum.

Web testing and measurement services are available from The Measurement Factory, an outgrowth of the IRCache group.

Allot Communications provides network management services, including the CacheEnforcer that provides a centralized mechanism for defining and enforcing policies for user access to caching servers.

Expand Networks leverages caching, encoding, and compression technologies to significantly increase throughput on enabled network links.

www.edge-delivery.org provides information on the Edge-Side Includes (ESI) proposal from Akamai, Oracle, and others.

Similarly, Docland provides a white paper on an AJAX-style document assembly process.

David Guerrero's page on caching with Squid.