[18118] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Digex transparent proxying
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Sena)
Sat Jun 27 13:24:52 1998
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 1998 08:18:12 -0400 (EDT)
From: Rich Sena <ras@poppa.clubrich.tiac.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980628020246.266K-100000@koala.aussie.net>
On Sun, 28 Jun 1998, andrew khoo wrote:
> more aggressive caching techniques would necessitate that the tags be
> ignored anyway, and the "dynamic" content would still be cached. expires
> etc are only useful if the caching box decides to honour them.
The tags are usually ignored by default - the html tags I mean - unless
itis parsed into http most caches will ignore it and you do have a
problem. The majority of caches I've seen have a built exclusion for the
usual "always dynamic" items - cgi, "?" in path, asp... .
> some of the content providers in the US would turn over in their graves if
> they knew what people who pay heaps more $$$ for traffic are doing to
> their web sites :). we have done some funky stuff with content (read:
> caching of dynamic pages, even .asps, "tokenized" HTML, dropping realaudio
> UDP etc etc etc).
Yup - you folk in Australiaview caching as the norm - not the enemy. Go
figure...
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