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Re: backbone transparent proxy / connection hijacking
From: Mark Skinner <mark () atmnet net>
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 15:31:57 -0700 (PDT)
As I don't have a direct Digex connection I can't comment on your question, but I do want to pose this: If Digex causes HTTP traffic to go through their proxy, are they 1. filtering content? and 2. become responsible for all that goes through it. I seem to recall a lawsuit about compuserve screening email or chatrooms? anyone else think that Digex better get some really good lawyers? my two cents, Mark Skinner Verio Southern California
Has anyone else noticed Digex playing with transparent proxying on their backbone? We have one of our T1's through them, and found that all web traffic going out our Digex connection goes through a proxy. We've got customers with web sites that are broken now because they can't communicate with things like Cybercash, because their outgoing http requests are hijacked and sent through a Digex web cache. Digex wants us to register each web server out on the rest of the internet that hosts from our network need to talk directly to. This looks like the beginning of a big PITA. I wouldn't have a problem with Digex setting up some web caches and encouraging customers to setup their own caches and have them talk to the Digex ones via ICP...but caching everything without our knowledge/consent stinks. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Jon Lewis <jlewis () fdt net> | Spammers will be winnuked or Network Administrator | drawn and quartered...whichever Florida Digital Turnpike | is more convenient. ______http://inorganic5.fdt.net/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key____
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