RE: Active proxy 'problems'
Mike Dierken <[email protected]> Mon, 1 Jul 2002 09:06:26 -0700
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> -----Original Message----- > From: N. Coesel [mailto:[email protected]] > > This setup seems to work quite well, but there is one major > drawback: There seem to be active proxies at the client side. > This means that more and more sites will refresh their caches > every 24 hours. This results in a huge amount of wasted > bandwith since no-one (= a person) at the client side > actually requested the document. What do you mean by 'active proxy'? Is that something that pre-fetches documents just in case a user may ask for it? Do you know what user-agent is provided in those requests?