- From: N. Coesel <nctnico@cistron.nl>
- Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2002 19:12:13 +0200
- To: www-talk@w3.org
At 09:06 01-07-2002 -0700, you wrote: > >> >> This setup seems to work quite well, but there is one major >> drawback: There seem to be active proxies at the client side. >> This means that more and more sites will refresh their caches >> every 24 hours. This results in a huge amount of wasted >> bandwith since no-one (= a person) at the client side >> actually requested the document. > >What do you mean by 'active proxy'? Is that something that pre-fetches >documents just in case a user may ask for it? Yes.. sort of. I've noticed that some proxy caches re-fetch (yes re-fetch) the documents every 24 hours (or with shorter intervals) to keep their data up-to-date. This results in a huge amount of hits. >Do you know what user-agent is provided in those requests? I'm recompiling squid (the fron-side proxy) right now to log the user agent. Nico Coesel
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