[18097] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Digex transparent proxying
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ken emery)
Sat Jun 27 00:43:53 1998
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 21:28:30 -0700 (PDT)
From: ken emery <ken@cnet.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <g6vhpnms45.fsf@daedalus.crosslink.net>
On 27 Jun 1998, Michael Shields wrote:
> In article <35935600.FF54EBFE@infowest.com>,
> "Aaron D. Gifford" <agifford@infowest.com> 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
