On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 22:50, Robert Collins wrote: > On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 22:27, Jon Biddell wrote: > > >But don't use interception for accessing > > > the proxy. (incorrectly called transparent proxing). > > > > Rob, I'd be interested in your reasoning behind this - I thought > > "transparent proxying" was widely used (I know Bidpond here use it). > > Sure. > > Interception of TCP streams breaks the end to end semantics of TCP. This > raises issues -
Thanks for the information, Rob... Some very interesting issues that I hadn't even considered (like the "no fallback")... Many thanks for your time... Jon -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
