Digex transparent proxying
Paul Vixie
vixie at vix.com
Sun Jun 28 15:07:50 UTC 1998
> Or detect a proxy and refuse service (which, if I was doing this, is exactly
> what I would do).
"Go ahead, make my day." If you can detect the proxy box I used to sell via
MII, and refuse service to it, I will post a retraction right here.
> Not to mention those to derive advertising revenue from "views", and have no
> way to measure them in a cached environment.
"No way"? How about:
rfc2227.txt -- Simple Hit-Metering and Usage-Limiting for HTTP.
J. Mogul, P. Leach. October 1997. (Format: TXT=85127 bytes)
(Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
> If I was doing that, I would also deny service to proxy servers and
> display a nice message telling the user to remove the proxy or bitch about
> its forced use.
Playboy.COM did something like that to @Home last year for a similar reason.
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