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==Legality==

In 1998, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act added rules to the United States Code (17 U.S.C. §: 512) that exempts system operators from copyright liability for the purposes of caching.

==Server-side software==

This is a list of server-side web caching software.

{| style="font-size: 85%; text-align: center; width: auto;" class="sortable wikitable"

|-

!rowspan="2"|Name

!colspan="3"|Operating system

!rowspan="2"|Forward<br />mode

!rowspan="2"|Reverse<br />mode

!rowspan="2"|License

|-

![[Microsoft Windows|Windows]]

![[Unix-like]]

!Other

|-

! scope="row" |[[Apache HTTP Server]]

| {{yes}}

| {{yes|OS X, Linux, Unix, FreeBSD, Solaris, Novell NetWare}}

| {{yes|OS/2, TPF, OpenVMS, eComStation}}

|{{Yes}}

|

| {{open source|[[Apache 2.0]]}}

|-

! scope="row" | [[aiScaler]] Dynamic Cache Control

| {{no}}

| {{yes|[[Linux]]}}

| {{no}}

|

|

| {{Proprietary}}

|-

! scope="row" | [[ApplianSys#CACHEbox|ApplianSys CACHEbox]]

| {{no}}

| {{yes|[[Linux]]}}

| {{no}}

|

|

| {{Proprietary}}

|-

! scope="row" | [[Blue Coat Systems|Blue Coat]] ProxySG

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes2|SGOS}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Proprietary}}

|-

! scope="row" | [[Nginx]]

| {{yes}}

| {{yes|[[Linux]], [[BSD]], [[OS X]], [[Solaris (operating system)|Solaris]], [[AIX]], [[HP-UX]]}}

| {{yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{open source|2-clause [[BSD licenses|BSD]]-like}}

|-

! scope="row" | [[Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway]]

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Proprietary}}

|-

! scope="row" | [[Polipo]]

| {{yes}}

| {{yes|[[OS X]], [[Linux]], [[OpenWrt]], [[FreeBSD]]}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{open source|[[MIT License]]}}

|-

! scope="row" | [[Squid (software)|Squid]]

| {{yes}}

| {{yes|[[Linux]]}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{open source|[[GPL]]}}

|-

! scope="row" | [[Apache Traffic Server]]

| {{dunno}}

| {{yes|[[Linux]]}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{open source|[[Apache 2.0]]}}

|-

! scope="row" | Untangle

| {{no}}

| {{yes|[[Linux]]}}

| {{no}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Proprietary}}

|-

! scope="row" | [[Varnish (software)|Varnish]]

| {{no}}

| {{yes|[[Linux]]}}

| {{no}}

| {{Needs}} a VMOD

| {{Yes}}

| {{open source|[[BSD licenses|BSD]]}}

|-

! scope="row" | [[WinGate]]

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Proprietary}} (Free for 8 users)

|-

! scope="row" |Nuster

| {{no}}

| {{yes|[[Linux]]}}

| {{no}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{open source|[[GPL]]}}

|-

![[McAfee]] Web Gateway

| {{no}}

| {{yes2|McAfee Linux Operating System}}

| {{no}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Proprietary}}

|}

== See also ==

* [[InterPlanetary File System]] - makes web caches redundant

* [[Cache Discovery Protocol]]

* [[Cache manifest in HTML5]]

* [[Content delivery network]]

* [[Harvest project]]

* [[Proxy server]]

* [[Web accelerator]]

*[[Search engine cache]]

== References ==

{{Reflist}}

==Further reading==

* Ari Luotonen, ''Web Proxy Servers'' (Prentice Hall, 1997) {{ISBN|0-13-680612-0}}

* Duane Wessels, ''Web Caching'' (O'Reilly and Associates, 2001). {{ISBN|1-56592-536-X}}

* Michael Rabinovich and Oliver Spatschak, ''Web Caching and Replication'' (Addison Wesley, 2001). {{ISBN|0-201-61570-3}}

{{WebManTools}}

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