ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD RELATED TO DISTRIBUTED CACHING

摘要

The present invention relates to a communication system and a method for providing distributed caching of reply data objects (17) within a packet dat a network comprising network elements (14), a client terminal (10) and at leas t two intermediary Web caches (12). In order to improve performance and flexibility, each cache (12) is provided with information handling means for defining both object operation type and object context, the data in a reques t is separated into context defining data and pure information data and in the associations between context in requests and replies being used for discriminating between relevant and irrelevant reply data.