Thanks - some good terms and definitions - I'll see what I can do with
them. But we still need comments from others.
On Wed, 23 Jun 1999 20:33:25 +0200, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
>Ian Cooper wrote:
>
>> Do we really mean (in our own language) that transparent means
>> *network* transparent, or do we mean content consumer transparent?
>
>My personal definitions:
>
>"transparent proxy" is a proxy that the end user does not need to care
>about or be aware of. It by itself does not define how this is acheived
>(network redirection, WPAD or whatever automatic means, possibly
>including administrative enforced proxy settings the user can't bypass).
>It is not neccesary semantically transparent, only the perceieved user
>experience is transparent.
That's close to what I was trying to get at.
>"network transparent proxy" is a proxy intercepting TCP traffic.
>
>"fully network transparent proxy" is a proxy intercepting TCP traffic
>without hiding the client identity.
Hmm, not sure what you mean about not hiding the client identity.
Do you mean that the proxy should masquerade with the client's
address? If so, that is guaranteed to be no-where near fully
transparent at the most basic implementation. If not... (HTTP
headers?)
>I do not differentiate between a proxy and it's function proxying.
:)
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