On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 18:16, Matthew Geier wrote: > I'm in a place that has the same http proxy setup. And every browser > that I know of supports proxy exclusions. > lynx even supports it via the no_proxy environment variable. (I was > under the impression that the http transport library handled this not > Lynx itself...) > > Why configure a proxy to block local? - well we didn't, and clients > configured to pull local pages through the proxy were overloading the > disk/cpu/network on the proxy servers - not many machines can cope with > with multi megabits of similtatious in/and out via their disk and not > slow down.... (Fast client on a fast switched LAN talking via local > proxy server also on a fast switched LAN to a fast web server on a fast > switched LAN, and the proxy server stuggles to shuffle the bits in and > out. Multiple that by several hundred misconfigured users...) > > > Basicly the proxy servers were being overwhelmed with local traffic, > so the changed the configuration to refused to proxy such traffic. I'm pinging out to Michael Stenner and Ryan Tomayko on this one. I don't have any opposition to it but they've been working on urlgrabber and I'm curious how much pain this would be. Thanks -sv
