Re: http/1.1 requirements

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 22:17:28 +0200

Robert Collins wrote:

> <flamebait mode> So why do we support authentication, redirection &
> anonymity filtering? </flamebait mode>

authentication in a transparent proxy is fully allowed. Redirection and
anonymization is not.

> I made an assumption when I read - that squid's "transparent" mode was
> equivalent to rfc 2616 transparent operation. It's not though as I can see
> now I am reading the text again. Doh.

And is why I dowe down in quite detail here. There is lots of confusion
around the term "transparent". A better term for what is normally called
"transparent proxy" is a "intercepting proxy".

/Henrik
Received on Wed Oct 25 2000 - 14:53:13 MDT

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