Re: Digex transparent proxying

[ken emery <ken () cnet com>]

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