Chapter 1

Planning for Web Cache Service

About this chapter  

A NetCache appliance can be used as a Web cache to provide content-caching service to clients on the network. This chapter provides information to help users plan their configurations of their NetCache appliances as Web caches.

Before reading further  

This chapter assumes that you have read the information about Web caching in the Deployment Guide and have made decisions about how you want to deploy your NetCache appliance as a Web cache on your network.

Sections in this chapter  

This chapter provides information about the following topics:

• Section A, Planning for Web cache configuration
• Section B, How NetCache manages Web objects
• Section C, General HTTP configuration options
• Section D, About FTP support
• Section E, About tunneling HTTP-based traffic
• Section F, Web cache performance
• Section G, Monitoring a Web cache

Procedures and option descriptions  

See the Appliance Manager online Help for configuration procedures and option descriptions.

Location of configuration options  

To access the HTTP options in the Appliance Manager, select:

Setup tab > HTTP

To access the FTP options in the Appliance Manager, select:

Setup tab > FTP

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