Maybe words like 'network infrastructure element' can be
used to describe a 'transparent proxy'?
On the functional level for me the closest analogy for the
'transparent cache' in the web world is a router in the tcp/ip
world: the application normally should not be aware of its
presence but can discover it by using some special means.
Oskar
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Martin [mailto:jmartin@netapp.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 24, 1999 12:18 PM
> To: Ian Cooper; dforster@cisco.com; Josh Cohen (Exchange)
> Cc: Henrik Nordstrom; wrec@cs.utk.edu
> Subject: Re: Taxonomy draft, draft-melve-wrec-taxonomy-00.txt
>
>
> Henrik, Ian,
>
> For me the definition of 'transparent proxy' is more about the
> communication flow. With a 'transparent proxy' deployment, the user
> (client) attempts to make a TCP connection to the IP address of the origin
> server; in the non-transparent case, it attempts to make a connection to
> the proxy.
>
> John
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