Distributing Files in the Cache

The Proxy Server uses a specific algorithm to determine the directory where a document should be stored. This algorithm ensures equal distribution of documents in the directories. Equal distribution is important because directories with large numbers of documents tend to cause performance problems.

The Proxy Server uses the RSA MD5 algorithm (Message Digest 5) to reduce the URL to 16 bytes of binary data and uses 8 bytes of this data to calculate a 16-character hexadecimal file name that is used to store the document in the cache.