Re: Digex transparent proxying

[Hank Nussbacher <hank () ibm net il>]

On 28 Jun 1998, Paul Vixie wrote:
> And in these senses (cut through with segment reblocking; reasonable/modern
> TCP handling; more use of persistent HTTP), someone with tcpdump actually
> would be able to tell that my particular transparent caching box was in use.
> I'll leave the challenge to Karl open, though, since I meant specifically
> "be ableto tell from the client or server end" not "be able to tell using
> tcpdump on a LAN wire upstream of the caching box".
> -- 

And more and more per IP subscription services will need pages like:
http://www.iop.org/cgi-bin/checkup for their customers to debug all these
transparent proxies that may or may not be in the path.

> Paul Vixie
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Hank Nussbacher