[18184] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Digex transparent proxying
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Vixie)
Mon Jun 29 13:21:13 1998
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>
Date: 28 Jun 1998 08:07:50 -0700
In-Reply-To: karl@mcs.net's message of 27 Jun 1998 07:35:32 -0700
> Or detect a proxy and refuse service (which, if I was doing this, is exactly
> what I would do).
"Go ahead, make my day." If you can detect the proxy box I used to sell via
MII, and refuse service to it, I will post a retraction right here.
> Not to mention those to derive advertising revenue from "views", and have no
> way to measure them in a cached environment.
"No way"? How about:
rfc2227.txt -- Simple Hit-Metering and Usage-Limiting for HTTP.
J. Mogul, P. Leach. October 1997. (Format: TXT=85127 bytes)
(Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
> 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.
Playboy.COM did something like that to @Home last year for a similar reason.
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