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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Digex transparent proxying
On Sat, Jun 27, 1998 at 03:39:48AM +0000, 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. > -- > Shields, CrossLink. Or detect a proxy and refuse service (which, if I was doing this, is exactly what I would do). Not to mention those to derive advertising revenue from "views", and have no way to measure them in a cached environment. If I was doing that, I would also deny service to proxy servers and display a nice message telling the user to remove the proxy or bitch about its forced use. -- -- Karl Denninger ([email protected])| MCSNet - Serving Chicagoland and Wisconsin http://www.mcs.net/ | T1's from $600 monthly / All Lines K56Flex/DOV | NEW! Corporate ISDN Prices dropped by up to 50%! Voice: [+1 312 803-MCS1 x219]| EXCLUSIVE NEW FEATURE ON ALL PERSONAL ACCOUNTS Fax: [+1 312 803-4929] | *SPAMBLOCK* Technology now included at no cost
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