Coral Cache: What's the Catch?

July 29, 2006 9:48 AM

What's the catch with Coral Cache? Is there...

Why yes, there is; thanks for asking. :-)

I've seen several people recommend Coral Cache to other people in various AskMe threads, including one today. It seems like it has no visible means of support. It is just a research project, paid for by New Yorkers' tax dollars? Is it going to Google/Yahoo out and end up going commercial? Who is that Man behind that Curtain? And what about Naomi?

A couple of specific questions: how does it interact with dynamic sites? Does their caching engine rewrite *all* links it finds in pages to the same site to push them to the cache? Can you override it? Should I have read every page on their site to find these answers instead? :-)

Most importantly, in an AskMe State Of Mind: has anyone here used it extensively, and what did you think?

posted by baylink to computers & internet (1 comment total)

Take a look at the Coral Cache Page. CC is one of the technology demos for the Planet Lab next generation internet project. Although they don't seem to advertise the fact, Planet Lab is heavily funded by certain lage technology companies that would like to remain at the forefront of network technology. Charter membership in the consortium costs $300k a year, for example.

You can answer most of the rest of your questions by browsing the coral cache and planetlab pages, then trying it out.
posted by b1tr0t at 10:07 AM on July 29, 2006