Monday, September 19, 2016

Centralized Web Caching

Centralized web caching means all the users access to one centralized cache, which saves all the browsing history.  When a user requests a URL through a browser, it takes the hostname component of the user and translates the hostname into an IP address.  A HTTP session is opened for respective address, and then the client requests the URL from the particular server.
In this method, the cache acts as a representative for the client; it opens a session to the server mentioned in the URL, and attempts a direct transfer to the cache.  But this centralized caching mechanism has several problems such as security issues.

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