Harvest was a
DARPA
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funded research project by the
Internet Research Task Force
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Research Group on Resource Discovery and hosted at the
University of Colorado at Boulder
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, which provided a
web cache
A web cache (or HTTP cache) is a system for optimizing the World Wide Web. It is implemented both client-side and server-side. The caching of multimedia and other files can result in less overall delay when web browser, browsing the Web.
Parts o ...
, developed standards such as the
Internet Cache Protocol The Internet Cache Protocol (ICP) is a User Datagram_Protocol, UDP-based protocol (computing), protocol used for coordinating web caches. Its purpose is to find out the most appropriate location to retrieve a requested object in the situation where ...
and
Summary Object Interchange Format
may refer to:
* Abstract (summary), shortening a passage or a write-up without changing its meaning but by using different words and sentences
* Epitome, a summary or miniature form
* Abridgement, the act of reducing a written work into a shor ...
, and spawned many other technologies and software products.
After the conclusion of the project in 1996, the development of the Harvest object cache was continued with the
University of Edinburgh
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releasing version 1.5. The open source
squid cache
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and commercial
NetCache
NetCache is a former web cache software product which was owned and developed by NetApp between 1997 and 2006, and a hardware product family incorporating the NetCache software.
History
The NetCache software started as a commercial fork of the H ...
were both based on the Harvest object cache.
References
External links
Harvest: A Scalable, Customizable Discovery and Access SystemHarvest User's Manualharvest.transarc.com/ Wayback Machine
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* https://web.archive.org/web/20110510031651/http://harvest.cs.colorado.edu/
An adaptive caching and replication mechanism for WWW June 1997
Caching on JANETCached-1.4 ChangeLog
Web caching protocol
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