iBurst Transparent Proxy

I nice 'feature' will be for WBS to provide an http port that is not cached...
 
jmn said:
I nice 'feature' will be for WBS to provide an http port that is not cached...
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I don't follow, do you mean for your own hosting? If so, there are some port forwarding type things available from No-IP and others that would do what you presumably want...
 
no he means, what if you dont want your content cached or the cache is giving you problems, they should have a way to not use the cache server if you dont want to
 
slimothy said:
no he means, what if you dont want your content cached or the cache is giving you problems, they should have a way to not use the cache server if you dont want to
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Yes, but the standard for http is port 80, which is why it is easy to transparently cache in the first place.

I suppose there are some non-trivial ways of bypassing destination port 80 proxy cacheing, I can think of a few different possibilities, but nothing that the average email & solitaire type would have the ability to do...
 
its pretty easy, they offer a proxy that you stick in your browser, then that proxy (non transparent) doesn't cache requests, voila
 
Like port 8080 or 3128 that are the common ports used for non-transparent proxy...
 
Ok here's a little thing i found in an faq
What is a proxy?

Basically a middleman. When you are browsing a site through a proxy your requests are sent to the proxy and the proxy forwards them to the site instead of you connecting directly to the site. There are several classifications (the terminology is far from standard):

Transparent:A transparent proxy is one that needs no configuration on the clients. It works by automatically redirecting all port 80 traffic to the proxy. (Sometimes used as synonymous for non-anonymous.)

Explicit/Voluntary Anonymous: Clients must configure their browsers to use them. The proxy sends no client identification to the server. (HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR header is not sent; the server does not see your IP.)

Highly Anonymous: The proxy sends no client nor proxy identification to the server. (HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR, HTTP_VIA and HTTP_PROXY_CONNECTION headers are not sent; the server doesn't see your IP and doesn't even know you're using a proxy.)

Public (Self explanatory)

A transparent proxy may or may not be anonymous, and there are several levels of anonymity.
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