Gecko NFS Web proxy

Scott Baker, John H. Hartman

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Abstract

The World-Wide Web provides remote access to pages using its own naming scheme (URLs), transfer protocol (HTTP), and cache algorithms. Not only does using these special-purpose mechanisms have performance implications, but they make it impossible for standard Unix applications to access the Web. Gecko is a system that provides access to the Web via the NFS protocol. URLs are mapped to Unix file names, providing unmodified applications access to Web pages; pages are transferred from the Gecko server to the clients using NFS instead of HTTP, significantly improving performance; and NFS's cache consistency mechanism ensures that all clients have the same version of a page. Applications access pages as they would Unix files. A client-side proxy translates HTTP requests into file accesses, allowing existing Web applications to use Gecko. Experiments performed on our prototype show that Gecko is able to provide this additional functionality at a performance level that exceeds that of HTTP.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)1725-1736
Number of pages12
JournalComputer Networks
Volume31
Issue number11
DOIs
StatePublished - May 17 1999
EventThe WWW8: 8th International World Wide Web Conference - Toronto, Ont., Can
Duration: May 11 1999May 14 1999

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications

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