Re: any work on web caching?

[Haobo Yu <haoboy@isi.edu>]

Hi, Kai,

I'm using ns to study web caching consistency protocols. I'm not aware
of anybody else doing the same thing.

I think the main obstacle of using ns to do web caching is to transmit
application data (HTTP headers) in ns, which is not supported currently. I
have a hack to make it work, but I think there's plan to support that in
the near future. I think the recent introduction of Application class (in 
daily snapshot), which provides socket-like interfaces, brings ns one step
closer to that. 

- Haobo

On Sun, 5 Jul 1998, Kai Tang wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> We are considering using ns for web caching simulation. Did anyone do
> similar work before? And is ns suitable for this kind of simulation?
> 
> Thanks for the attention!
> 
> Kai Tang
> UCSD/SDSC/CAIDA
> 
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