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Re: AOL "proxy" behavior?


From: "Kurt Seifried" <bugtraq () seifried org>
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 22:48:53 -0600

Uhhh yeah, a single HTTP session can go through multiple sessions quite
easily. Microsoft CARP (Cache Array Routing Protocol) can easily cause this:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnproxy/htm
l/carp.asp

This is quite common from larger ISPs, like AOL, with a few tens of millions
of clients and god only knows how many web proxies.

Kurt Seifried, kurt () seifried org
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