Re: ISSUE PROXY-AUTHORIZATION: Proposal wording

David W. Morris:
>
>On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Dave Kristol wrote:
[....]
>> The "MUST" there would make me unhappy.  One of the important functions
>> of our experimental LPWA service (<http://lpwa.com>) is to deliberately
>> replace a user-entered escape sequence by a proxy-generated identity,
[....]
>Me too ... I have a single user proxy product which is a direct agent
>for its owner and only user ... I see no reason to restrict the behavior
>of such a proxy.

I would argue that products like this are not proxies in the HTTP
sense, but remote-controlled user agents.  Thus, any HTTP proxy
transparency rules do not apply to them.

Koen.