- From: Roland Zink <roland@zinks.de>
- Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2014 18:02:43 +0100
- To: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
On 03.11.2014 14:26, Salvatore Loreto wrote: > Users that select a proxy for optimization might still be required to accept the use of a proxy at their workplace or captive network of choice. Do you suggest to create dynamic proxy chains? E.g. the proxy at the workplace go out to the optimization proxy to fulfill user requests. > The trick here is balancing the requirements of different use cases. > > Proxies that provide privacy features need to be used exclusively, otherwise they could risk packet sniffing or pervasive monitoring by other nodes and risk the same sort of exposure that brought down the Silk Road. That's at odds with this scenario and we'd obviously need measures to ensure that this doesn't fail catastrophically. For a workplace proxy it may not be an option to allow privacy features, so I guess there are conflicting requirements. > Any thoughts from the group would be great. > > br > Salvatore > > [1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-nottingham-web-proxy-desc-01 Regards, Roland
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