Re: [squid-users] Re: usage of pac

On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Robert Collins wrote:

aol owns netscape.... development of new features in netscape including
the presence or lack thereof of wpad refelcts their prioritites or lack
of as the case may be...

note, they've published a list of things they want microsoft to fix in
ie because the microsoft-aol browser contract is up for renual this year,
so the rumor is they may choose to install netscape in some future aol
product.

so yeah wpad isn't a priority for aol/netscape

> > ??
> >
> > What does AOL have to do with it? They use IE.
>
> I don't know. maybe this is an AOL user?
>
> > I'm far from an AOL fan, but isn't it smart of them to use caches for
> > webpages? I'm sure with several million subscribers, it saves them a
> lot of
> > cost in bandwidth.
>
> "transparent caching" propely called intercepting caching has
> significant problems. AOL are smart for caching yes, but for using
> interception no.
>
> This has been covered before in the mail archives.
>
> Rob
>
> > Adam Lang
> > Systems Engineer
> > Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company
> > http://www.rutgersinsurance.com
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Joel Jaeggli" <joelja@darkwing.uoregon.edu>
> > To: "Parimi, Venkateshwara Rao" <Venkateshwara_Rao-Parimi@deshaw.com>
> > Cc: "'Jorge Cuellar Martinez'" <jorge.cuellar@sat.gob.mx>; "Henrik
> > Nordstrom" <hno@hem.passagen.se>; "Mike Diggins"
> > <diggins@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca>; <aalang@rutgersinsurance.com>;
> "Chemolli
> > Francesco (USI)" <ChemolliF@GruppoCredit.it>;
> <squid-users@squid-cache.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 1:23 PM
> > Subject: RE: [squid-users] Re: usage of pac
> >
> >
> > > nope... aol doesn't seem to care much, probably because they prefer
> to
> > > break stuff by doing transparent caching...
> >
> >
> >
>

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