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Re: Questions about Internet Packet Losses

  • From: Paul A Vixie
  • Date: Tue Jan 14 15:39:35 1997 
> One of the nice things about proxy servers and web caches is
> they mask end user host stack inadequacy, and thus (I allege)
> tend to increase MTUs and encourage better network utilization
> (in additional to the normal benefits of caching).

Proxy servers can also maintain persistent long/medium term HTTP 1.1
connections that the clients are too dumb to maintain themselves, thus
getting streaming without requiring client upgrades.
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