Re: Auto Proxy

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 00:48:40 +0100

Dave J Woolley wrote:

> Automatic proxy setting is a much better solution, if
> you can accept it; transparent proxies aren't as
> transparent as you might think, because the browser doesn't
> know that it is dealing with a proxy.

And it may break basic TCP/IP networking unless done 100% right. Most
common failure is to not account for ICMP processing and thereby causing
MTU path discovery to fail between the proxy and the clients.

--
Henrik Nordstrom
Squid hacker
Received on Fri Nov 26 1999 - 17:56:09 MST

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