Re: Taxonomy draft, draft-melve-wrec-taxonomy-00.txt

From: Henrik Nordstrom (hno@hem.passagen.se)
Date: Wed Jun 23 1999 - 16:04:52 MDT


Ian Cooper wrote:

> >"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.

Where the intent is to make the proxy "invisible" to both the end user
and the origin server (unless they actually do care to make a closer
investigation). This includes masquerading with the clients address, but
also how the requests are forwarded with respect to headers and protocol
version. 100% percent transparency is neither realistic or wanted.

--
Henrik Nordstrom
Spare time Squid hacker



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