In order to integrate Squid Web Cache and FTP Mirror Tracker we wrote
2 Perl modules implementing ICP (WebCache::ICP) and cache
digests (WebCache::Digest).
Using these modules we create:
- Daemon that will generate a "fake" ICP_HIT responses
- Cache digest consisting of the known URLs that are mirrored.
Then launching Squid on the same server as a FTP Mirror Tracker and
integrating it in the cache hierarchy
will greatly reduce
- bandwidth utilization
- "MISS" response time
- server load.