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author | Martin Wilke <miwi@FreeBSD.org> | 2006-11-04 23:03:40 +0000 |
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committer | Martin Wilke <miwi@FreeBSD.org> | 2006-11-04 23:03:40 +0000 |
commit | b0fe9e870640202d3be185de663e844382f0d743 (patch) | |
tree | a9c1cea1912146bef447c84fa5f870fcaf8c8876 /www/squid30/pkg-descr | |
parent | 986997dfa85770c0136c69db9c099fb63b52bbd0 (diff) | |
download | ports-b0fe9e870640202d3be185de663e844382f0d743.tar.gz ports-b0fe9e870640202d3be185de663e844382f0d743.zip |
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diff --git a/www/squid30/pkg-descr b/www/squid30/pkg-descr index 88ba8ba2aff5..0cd02912d960 100644 --- a/www/squid30/pkg-descr +++ b/www/squid30/pkg-descr @@ -1,15 +1,10 @@ -This is the Squid Internet Object Cache developed by the National -Laboratory for Applied Networking Research (NLANR) and Internet -volunteers. This software is freely available for anyone to use. - -This software is based on the Harvest Object Cache developed by -the University of Colorado and the University of Southern California. -The Harvest home page is http://harvest.cs.colorado.edu/. - -ARPA funding for the Harvest project has ended, the squid project has -continued development of the cache where Harvest finished. - -This port provides many configuration options, most of which are -available via 'make config'. +Squid is a high-performance proxy caching server for web clients, +supporting FTP, gopher, and HTTP data objects. Unlike traditional +caching software, Squid handles all requests in a single, non-blocking, +I/O-driven process. + +Squid supports SSL, extensive access controls, and full request logging. +By using the lightweight Internet Cache Protocol, Squid caches can be +arranged in a hierarchy or mesh for additional bandwidth savings. WWW: http://www.squid-cache.org/ |