Re: --enable-underscores as default?

From: Robert Collins <robertc@dont-contact.us>
Date: 23 Oct 2002 11:56:28 +1000

On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 11:45, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 23, 2002, Robert Collins wrote:
>
> > > I've been asked about it a lot lately. ISPs who run transproxies stop
> > > people from getting to some_lamer.geocities.com ..
> >
> > Yeap. Well, intercepting proxies being the spawn of satan...
>
> Bah!
>
> If there was only a real way of having an end-client discover proxy
> servers around it.. but that'd be a pipe dream.

As long as the client *expects* a proxy, they can request one from a
virtual IP that you use l4 magic to provide. The issue is that the
browser must *want* a proxy for one to be used sanely.

Rob

Received on Tue Oct 22 2002 - 19:56:32 MDT

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