- From: Brian Behlendorf <brian@organic.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1995 18:06:54 -0700 (PDT)
- To: Roy Fielding <fielding@beach.w3.org>
- Cc: http wg discussion <http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
On Mon, 14 Aug 1995, Roy Fielding wrote: > Servers have a right to know > > # individuals > # hits > hit times > domains serviced > > per URL, but not e-mail addresses, machine names, or any other data > that could be used to identify an individual. Referer data must also] > be optional. Are you suggesting that servers only have a right to see aggregate statistics, and not per-request lists? (i.e. "32 access of this url by 23 different hosts", not "hosta, timestampa; hostb, timestampB;"... etc? Also, how does the proxy determine "# individuals", or did you mean "# of different IP addresses serviced"? > Like Andrew mentioned, this is best done by passing a URL to the > origin server that tells it where it may retrieve a sanitized summary > of the data. I much prefer Buchard's model of sending it with the refresh request rather than forcing a separate transaction for the data. If a separate request were made, the proxy not only has to make that data HTTP-accessible to the outside world (a problem for proxies behind firewalls) but also has to have some heuristics as to how long that data is around. With compression it should not add significantly to the size of the request. Brian --=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-- brian@organic.com brian@hyperreal.com http://www.[hyperreal,organic].com/
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