At 08:16 AM 6/28/98 -0400, Rich Sena wrote:
On Sun, 28 Jun 1998, Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote:
How, pray tell, are they maximizing their distro and what? They way I understand it, they proxy-cache digex has set up optimizes for html, but screws everything else. Please tell me if I'm wrong.
Hmmm - you're wrong... the only traffic that would be diverted to this cache is port 80 - if they are using an alteon switch then the alteon makes a decision to redirect port 80 traffic ONLY to the port that the cache is connected to.
Thank you. So if I provide my links on a different port then I by-pass the proxy, cute. However, many of my customers have some ferocious firewalls that only allow port 80. Of course those machines are running their apache somewhere else. But, I use port 80 to run an SSH tunnel to them.
FYI, 80 to 90 percent of our served traffic is SSH encrypted, or SSL with nil TTLs.
Differnt port...
Caching is fine for non-transient data. I have yet to see either an SSL or SSH stream meet these requirements. With privacy issues coming to the fore-front, a transient domain is much more likely to encounter these types of streams.
Not effected...
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