North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Digex transparent proxying
On 27 Jun 1998, Michael Shields wrote: > In article <[email protected]>, > "Aaron D. Gifford" <[email protected]> wrote: > > It might also be time for content providers of time-sensitive data on the web > > to redirect requests coming from Digex' proxy harvest machines to a web page > > that says something along the lines of "Digex has intercepted your web request > > and directed it through their web caching system. This impacts the > > time-sensitive data at this site. Hence you cannot access this site in this > > manner. > Any content provider savvy enough to put that up could just as easily > put in the proper headers to tag their content as cacheable or > uncacheable or cacheable until time X, and that would be better for > *everyone* involved. Except when listening to the "proper" headers has been turned off by the cache (which some of these caching products support or will support). bye, ken emery
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