Re: gzip support

From: Robert Collins <robertc@dont-contact.us>
Date: 15 Dec 2002 23:12:40 +1100

On Sun, 2002-12-15 at 23:03, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> On Sunday 15 December 2002 08.52, Robert Collins wrote:
>
> > Note that your idea MUST NOT be turned on by default. And should
> > *never* be turned on for intercepting proxies. See the RFC 2616
> > requirements for transparent proxies for more detail.
>
> RFC 2616 "transparent" has nothing what so ever to do with
> intercepting proxies. The RFC use of "transparent" is "semantically
> transparent", i.e. does not change the semantic meaning of
> requests/responses, including content negotiation.

Yes - for clarity, the RFC use of transparent is what I intended in my
original paragraph.

Rob

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