Probably due to the myth that transparent cacheing actually saves bandwidth. Tho with the primary web servers defaulting to sending "dont cache these pages" headers back it seems a little fruitless. One major advantage of cacheing however (and part of the reason why we still used caches at iconz for some customers) was for bandwidth acceleration - tho in this configuration the cache tends to use more bandwidth than straight web browsing.. -- Steve. On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Joe Abley wrote:
On 8 Jun 2004, at 19:13, Cameron Kerr wrote:
I'm getting these messages, not because my client is issuing a malformed request, but rather that MaxNet's transparent proxy is serving this.
How widespread is transparent caching today?
Back during the trans-pacific bandwidth squeeze of 1998/9 it seemed like transparent caching was a necessary evil that would help accommodate growth in customer demand for traffic until Southern Cross arrived. Southern Cross arrived some time ago, is evidently not full, and yet people are still forcing customers to use caches.
Why is that?
Joe
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