Re: [http-replicator-users] http-replicator license

[Ed S. <es...@ar...>]

Sorry about my vague description of the patch. I hope I can clarify it:

The purpose of the --mirror option is to make http_replicator behave
as a reverse proxy  rather than a normal proxy (so maybe it should be
called --reverseproxy or something more precise).

Let's say you run two instances of http_replicator on myserver:

  http_replicator --port 8080 --root /proxy

  http_replicator --port 8081 --root /mirror --mirror http://upstream.com

Then you can download a document from upstream.com in two ways:

  http_proxy=http://myserver:8080 wget http://upstream.com/foo/doc.html

  wget http://myserver:8081/foo/doc.html

The second http_replicator instance is effectively serving as a local
mirror of http://upstream.com, just as if it were a regular httpd
serving static content that the admin had manually rsynced from
http://upstream.com.

Since this instance proxies requests only to a single host, all the
cached content ends up under /mirror/upstream.com:80; the --nohost
option avoids this redundant directory level.

Does that make sense?

--Ed