Where I work we use Artifactory as a proxy and a private package hosting service. It works great but it could be better. Especially when it comes to flat downl

Where I work we use Artifactory as a proxy and a private package hosting service. It works great but it could be better. Especially when it comes to flat downloads with no underlying package manager like Yocto/Bitbake and some are just terrible to setup like NugGets. The fact is, most languages or frameworks were just not designed with private repositories in mind. This is made worse when you have to make these private repositories integrate with non-developer environments like a CI worker node or a BitBake recipe. BitBake has a flat cache for downloads and binary builds and you can setup remote caches online for example and it works great. There is a dire need for some kind of universal caching protocol. Downloading files addressed by content through a proxy should be trivial and universal.