- From: Martin Hamilton <martin@mrrl.lut.ac.uk>
- Date: Sun, 16 Jun 1996 18:38:07 +0100
- To: www-proxy@w3.org
I was just trying to get my head around what exactly constitutes good practice on the part of proxy HTTP clients. See what you make of this... Proxy HTTP clients, e.g. in WWW browsers and proxy servers which have been chained to other proxy servers, should allow for: . direct connections to be used in the event of the proxy or proxies failing . multiple proxy servers to be used (in whatever configuration), so that clients aren't wholly dependent on a single proxy . proxying to be disabled for selected requests, e.g. based on the domain name component of the request if present . arbitrary protocol schemes to be proxied, i.e. including ones which the software does not have built-in knowledge of [ + detect and act appropriately when servers have multiple IP addresses ? Problems with DNS resolver code here ? ] Does the above sound reasonable as a baseline ? I realise that this stuff isn't universally supported, but that's another story! Martin PS I deliberately didn't mention JavaScript configuration files :-)
Received on Sunday, 16 June 1996 13:38:10 UTC