> you how it works. They do tell you they use special standards, which is
> why you can't prevent caching. They also, in some instances, strip off
> everything after the ? in URL encoded strings, so we couldn't use those
> to genereate random numbers on each page (we thought maybe by doing that,
> at 20000 visitors a day with 46 pages each, our 86K individual pages in
> their cache daily might eventually annoy them . . .).
Arggghhhhh!!!!
Now I know why I have hundreds of seemingly clueless idiots wandering
around Mall-Net's chat pages!!! These bozo's with their caching scheme
should be cached in the bottom of the sea! (Don't know of the Marianas
trench is deep enough...)
And that is probably why AOL is using its own search engine product,
which _I_ can't get to, at least not sometime last year when I tried.
> In short, AOL makes it darn hard to effectively deliver any type of
> dynamic, time-sensitive data to their users. They're basically caching
> every page that comes in on disk and saving it, and adding some apparent
> shortcuts to cut down on what they perceive as "unnecessary" traffic to
> the Internet.
And why some people keep telling me they can't get to Mall-Net, can't
use our diagnostic quizes on some of the medical sites, place orders, etc.
etc. etc.
AwOL! Anti Internet Commerce!
> for instance, that some data goes in Monday morning. So on Monday
> morning they're there looking for it. Because we use the same filename
> (so they can bookmark it), we also encounter a bunch of misconfigured
> proxies from AOL that ignore the last modified info and feed them an old
> copy--no matter how many times they reload. Get them off an AOL
> connection, the data is there for them.
Gurgle!
> whole Class B block, then screened them for AOL proxy server names--and
> if they matched, they get a page saying "sorry" and giving them
> instructions on how to use the application from a real internet connection.
Good idea!
> Enough generic elaboration, or was there something specific in there you
> wanted more on? Basically, AOL is only a fraction less evil than MS in
> my book :P
Thankyou for this valuable information!!! I had given up on trying
to figure out the problems we keep having reported regarding access from
AwOL. My guess is that the "?" stripping is not always done, just much of
the time.
How these idiots expect to put the world on-line, is beyond me!
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