Tim wrote: >> Proxying can only speed things up, for you, if you access something >> that someone else has already accessed before you. *And* if that >> data is cacheable. James Wilkinson: > In general, true. > > It doesn’t sound as though this service is conventional proxying, > though. It sounds like they’re dynamically rewriting web pages to > reduce the number of TCP/IP round trips. Since a round trip via a > satellite takes about half a second, there’s a lot of scope for > speeding things up. Even pre-fetching is still dependent on the data being cacheable. Some sites just don't work well with any sort of proxying, and some are deliberately hostile to it. I have no qualms with opt-in proxying, it can have significant advantages. But I don't care for any form of transparent proxying, because it can be nearly impossible to avoid it when you need to. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.6.2-4.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Oct 17 02:43:21 UTC 2012 x86_64 All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
