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Re: Web caching liability
From: "Richard Welty" <welty () wednesday inet-solutions net>
Date: Fri, 2 Jan 1998 12:37:16 +0000
Brian Horvitz wrote:
Has anyone else exerienced problems with AOL's web proxy servers? We switched the IP address of a web site about 5 months ago, and we are still getting about 10,000 hits a day from AOL on the old address. We dropped a note to them a ways back but didn't get much of a response.
they've been problems for a long time; some of their proxy servers hold cache data for far too long. i have some web discussion pages that are effectively useless for aol subscribers because aol even caches cgi generated stuff with obvious cgi related extensions like ".cgi" and ".pl". they appear to have little organizational control over the software running on their server farm, either for software versions or configuration files; there are clearly several different variants of sendmail running, in addition to several different versions of their proxy software. it's kind of a mess, and they've never returned any of my email notes. sigh, richard -- Richard Welty Chief Internet Engineer, INet Solutions welty () inet-solutions net http://www.inet-solutions.net/~welty/ 888-311-INET
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