- From: <hallam@axal04.cern.ch>
- Date: Thu, 17 Nov 1994 17:28:03 +0100
- To: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
>I agree! Proxy servers perform a completely different function from >"regular" servers and in my opinion, are more properly termed "proxy >clients". With the advent of caching clients like NetScape, making >allowances in HTTP for proxy servers may become less of requirement except >at sites where there are evil firewalls that only allow the proxy in and >out. I disagree very strongly here. Security proxies such as the TIS proxy are rather different to what the CERN proxy server provides. Here there is a primitive version of an item I beleive represents the future of the Web, a caching relay server. The name proxy is a misnomer. Client side caqches help but only to a small extent. Client side caches cannot be safely shared in most circumstances. Phill H-B
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