Performance

The proxy server’s performance can be improved by caching incoming pages so that the next time one is called for, it can be served straight up without having to waste time going over the Web. We can do the same thing for outgoing pages, particularly pages generated on the fly by CGI scripts and database accesses (bearing in mind that this can lead to stale content and is not invariably desirable).

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