Pachyderm: The Web Proxy that Never Forgets.
CS736 Graduate Operating Systems Project - Fall 2000
Alison Krautkramer (sisko1@cs.wisc.edu)
Jing Li (jing@cs.wisc.edu)
As a result of the increasing popularity and resulting growth of the Internet; fast, efficient, and reliable access to the information on the Internet is becoming increasingly important. In this paper, an introduction to the Pachyderm Web Proxy is presented. This web proxy is an Internet proxy that not only caches the most recent copy of requested Internet documents, but it also stores old versions of those documents for future reference. Flexible context searches can be performed on the data within the cache to assist the user with identifying web pages of interest that have been viewed historically. This paper examines the design and implementation of the Pachyderm Web Proxy and provides measurements indicating that caching is an efficient method of satisfying client requests. Also, it will be demonstrated that indexing and searching historically viewed web documents can be done without the commitment of large amounts of memory or time.