Harvest was a DARPA funded research project by the Internet Research Task Force

Internet Research Task Force

The Internet Research Task Force focuses on longer term research issues related to the Internet while the parallel organization, the Internet Engineering Task Force , focuses on the shorter term issues of engineering and standards making...

 Research Group on Resource Discovery (IETF-RD) and hosted at the University of Colorado at Boulder

University of Colorado at Boulder

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 which provided a web cache

Web cache

A web cache is a mechanism for the temporary storage of web documents, such as HTML pages and images, to reduce bandwidth usage, server load, and perceived lag...

, developed standards such as the Internet Cache Protocol

Internet Cache Protocol

The Internet Cache Protocol is a protocol used for coordinating web caches. Its purpose is to find out the most appropriate location to retrieve a requested object from in the situation where multiple caches are in use at a single site...

 and Summary Object Interchange Format, and spawned many other technologies and software products.

After the conclusion of the project in 1996, development of the Harvest object cache was continued with the University of Edinburgh

University of Edinburgh

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 releasing version 1.5. The open source squid cache

Squid cache

Squid is a proxy server and web cache daemon. It has a wide variety of uses, from speeding up a web server by caching repeated requests; to caching web, DNS and other computer network lookups for a group of people sharing network resources; to aiding security by filtering traffic...

 and commercial NetCache

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:...

 were both based on the Harvest object cache.

External links

• harvest.transarc.com/, Wayback machine
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• http://harvest.cs.colorado.edu/
• An adaptive caching and replication mechanism for WWW, June 1997
• Caching on JANET
• Cached-1.4 ChangeLog