Re: [IMail Forum] AOL Log in

[John A. Young]

Dusty,
I've noticed something unusual in the logfiles for my IIS website. When someone downloads a page you normally get a number of entries (based upon the complexity of the page) by a single IP address. But when someone downloads from AOL, I get the same number of entries but by several IP addresses in the same class C group.
Is this the same kind of "round-robin proxy" stuff you're referring to?

John
Springboro Internet

--Original Message Text---
From: ## Dusty Carden
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 18:59:39 -0500

Thanks for the in-sight on this -V. Maybe I will get a chance to install
AOL on one of these boxes and see if I can figure out what it is doing.
Anyone else know anything about AOL software? Other than the fact it
really messes up a good connection?

Dusty
----- Original Message -----
From: Vaughn Thurman
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 1999 9:39 AM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] AOL Log in


AOL [now] auto-configures their browser to use server based caching or http-proxy. All outbound web requests go to the cache device on port 80. That does not do well with non-standard ports, especially if they are using "netCache" boxes. They are header killers. Http headers check in but they don't check out! The IE browser is not configured automatically to go through the HTTP-Proxy and so you get to do straight IP. I have not figured out yet if there is a way to disable HTTP-Proxying in the AOL browser... Seems like a new function as my older AOL users are not running into this.
-V