Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
>
> Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
>
> > The most important aspect for a reverse proxy is "on behalf", which
> > implies that is is set up by and under the administrative control of the
> > content provider.
>
> Sorry, I was a bit uncareful in the wording there. The administrative
> control is usually that of the network managers of the origin server,
> which does not neccesary imply that it is under the control of the
> content provider. It should however be included in the a service
> agreement between the content provider and management of the origin
> server, network connection or reverse proxy.
Whether a term is in wide use or not does not necessarily
require its use in the core of the taxonomy document.
We can easily define an appropriate term and define 'reverse proxy'
in terms thereof.
What concerns me about the above is the use of "intent"
in a definition. There must be some objective metric.
Management control, service agreeements, etc. aren't
useful objective metrics.
Is there any definition of a reverse proxy that is objective?
(and can distinguish it completely from a non-reverse proxy cache?)
Joe
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