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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: backbone transparent proxy / connection hijacking
On Fri, 26 Jun 1998 [email protected] wrote: > Accurately is a bone of contention. We've all seen what caching can do to > time sensitive web-sites. Not really - enlighten us... Web caching when done responsibly by caching provider, customer AND content server has no "real" dangers of interfering with dynamic or time sensitive data. > I didn'y see any mention of copyright infringement, which will be an issue > at some point. Also, the fact that if I am caching my customers > web-servers, they are potentially getting free service. Prefetching is really the only issue that bridges copyright infringement - all other content was requested by a third party and not the cache itself - in the arena of prefetching - where the cache is actively making a decision to gather the content then you may actually have a point for copyright infringement - but really a minor one. > Hah! This is a silly statement. Not to mention, when sites are selling > advertising based upon hits on thier site. Is there a way yet for the > proxy to report back to the cached-site that is served a cached-copy of > it's website? You don't need to report back hit stats really - the content provider merely needs to make "something" non-cacheable with an appropriate http expires header - it can be something like a 1 pixel gif or maybe the actual text of the page and take their hits off that - if "your" site comes up quickly it will reflect better on the dsigner and owner of the site - caching actually benefits content providers. -- I am nothing if not net-Q! - [email protected]
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