Re: proxy use of jigsaw

Yes, but if you have your own caching proxy you can just turn
Netscape's caching off entirely by setting it's memory and disk cache
size to 0. This works splendidly for me.

> I interpreted Javier's question a little differently. I thought that the
> 
> cacheing that he was worried about was his browser's cacheing, not
> Jigsaw's. And I think the answer is that unless he gets Jigsaw's proxy
> to add appropriate no-cache headers to all proxied documents then it's
> possible that his browser will cache some documents and therefore will
> not pass those requests on to Jigsaw.
> 
> -Mark
> 
> Anselm Baird_Smith wrote:
> 
> > Javier Arellano writes:
> >  >
> >  > I'm attempting to "monitor" browser interaction by having
> >  > one's browser set to a proxy web server (jigsaw) and setting up a
> >  > filter on this server to "track" requests/replies
> >  >
> >  > Now, my question is: given that I utilizing jigsaw as a proxy
> > server,
> >  > if one requests a page (i.e., URL) that has been previously visited
> >
> > by the
> >  > browser in the same session, will jigsaw "see" this request even
> > though it
> >  > may be cached in the proxied browser...the key point is that the
> > browser
> >  > is proxied to jigsaw, i.e., does it make a difference if it is
> > proxied or
> >  > not.
> >
> > That's a neat idea. In fact I would really like to have a filter that
> > would keep track of *everything* I have visited (very usefull, you
> > often loose track of what you've been up to these days ;-). That
> > filter should emit all the visited urls (and time) into some HTML file
> >
> > which would be serve by the proxy (typically one file per day, zip
> > them every week, keep N weeks of log, etc).
> > A friend of mine have written that stuff in C (works by checking the X
> >
> > properties of Netscape - only under UNIX). It would be much more nice
> > to have a personnal proxy, etc
> >
> > Anyway back to the question: this depends on the ordering of the
> > filter decl;aration in the relevant property
> > (w3c.www.protocol.http.filters), so if you say:
> >
> > w3c.www.protocol.http.filters=cache|log
> >
> > then log might not get called (if request is fullfilled by the cache),
> >
> > however:
> >
> > w3c.www.protocol.http.filters=log|cache
> >
> > Things will work great :-)
> >
> > Anselm.
> > btw let me know if you write that and if you're willing to share the
> > code.
> 
> 
> 
> 


-- 
Joe Futrelle
Developer, Joule/Jigsaw Java/HTTP
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
futrelle@ncsa.uiuc.edu
(217) 265-0296

Received on Friday, 30 May 1997 13:01:11 UTC