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Why not use a proxy?

• number6 7y ago
  My initial though. Is there a proxy that also serves? Maybe a squid addon? This would be awesome. I hope to see something like the way back machine but local for all the things I ever surfed.
  • supermatt 7y ago
    Any caching proxy (including squid) will serve - that is their whole point. You may need to tweak the configuration to ignore the website-specified expiry and cache headers.
    • number6 7y ago
      In principle this is true but there are some caveats regarding the usability: It does not present the cache in a friendly way. There is no Index or something like a nice starting page with your top browsed sites - you get the idea. I guess this is totally doable with squid or any other caching proxy, but I don't know any that does this
    • oefrha 7y ago
      Squid (or any other popular caching proxy I'm aware of) doesn't cache verbs other than GET, so a lot of websites can't be cached this way; notably, GraphQL APIs usually use POST for all requests, even just queries.
• jiofih 7y ago
  A proxy means you’re MITM your own connection (debug mode is also an issue but not as simple to take advantage of).