Re: Summary - Will browsers support multiple proxy servers

Rumour has it that on  1 Jul 95 at 2:03, www-proxy@www10.w3.org said:

> Brian Behlendorf writes:
> 
>  > > I didn't check the source of any WWW browser, but I hope they'd cope
>  > > with multi-homed servers.  If a request to one address times out, they
>  > > should automagically switch to the secondary address ...
>  > 
>  > This is exactly how it should be done, and is exactly what no browser 
>  > does, except for Henrik's LineMode browser :)
> 
> Arena, too! But, this is nothing to brag about since all the work is
> done in the library onto which the LMB also is built. So, we'll be
> seeing more of these..

Are the folks at Netscape paying attention?  :)

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Received on Tuesday, 4 July 1995 11:02:33 UTC