In a previous episode fielding@ebuilt.com said...
::
:: I don't buy the argument that "transparent proxy" is the common term
:: for this in the industry. I am in this industry and yet I have never
:: heard that term used outside a wrec-related discussion,
first three sites I tried:
Alteon: "for use with transparent caches"
http://www.alteonwebsystems.com/products/cachedirector.shtml
Inktomi: "deploying transparent caching with inktomi's traffic server"
http://www.inktomi.com/products/network/traffic/tech/deploy.html
(there were 15 other documents with references to transparent caching
on inktomi's site)
Network Appliance: "Netcache: Transparent Caching"
http://www.netapp.com/tech_library/alt2.html
(there were 30 other documents with references to transparent caching
on netapp)
That's 3 for 3.. this is a very prominent term; like it or not. And I
don't.. but that's not the point of the taxonomy. What we can't do is
say that these things are "transparent" in the way the vendors who
created them want to imply.. and I think we do a good job of avoiding that.
(Altavista has 3260 pages with "+transparent +proxy" and 16,804 with
"+transparent +cache").. heck even CERN the home of the first httpd
has http://sunstats.cern.ch/mrtg/webcache.html titled "CERN-USA
Transparent Web Cache(s) Traffic".
-P
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