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Alternative Options to Caching Web Traffic | Zscaler

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Proxies have been employing caching techniques to minimize bandwidth usage and improve latency on web browsing traffic in companies for over a decade. In the Web 1.0 days, caching was a useful technique because most web pages were relatively static. Today’s websites have evolved to provide much more dynamic content, session-based connections, streaming media, and the utilization of HTTPS to encrypt a large segment of traffic. In addition, there are now alternative techniques you can use to realize some of the same goals as caching, but in a more effective manner. To learn more about some of the changing trends that affect web proxy, see: Most web traffic today includes dynamic content. From news to searches and web applications, content is created on the fly and delivered to specific users. Caching provides no benefit for such content. The HTTP header, Cache-Control, was introduced to allow web developers to determine if and for how long a page should be cached. You will see many sites

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