Yeah. Be happy. But make sure, if you're using PHP or the like, that you're sending the kind of headers that allow pages to be cached :) I mean, if you see a proxy eating up bandwidth, then either you have lots of pages for the proxy to gather, or the proxy is not caching stuff. ----- Original Message ----- From: "dan" <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 7:36 PM Subject: Re: [users@httpd] Beginners question > Joe Tellup wrote: > > Hello, please forgive my lack of experience with the apache server, I'm > > a recent convert from IIS, as in the past week. > > > > When we hosted our websites on commercial sites, the shell access or ftp > > access was easy enough to work with, however, from the key board it is a > > different matter. > > > > I have the proxy.aol.com literally burning up my bandwidth. I'm sure > > there is a method with the htaccess to stop them, but I do not have > > enough knowledge yet about this file to configure it properly, Would > > anyone have a suggestion? > > > > Many thanks in advance > > Joe - > > It would not be wise to throttle a *.proxy.aol.com address, as tens of > thousands of clients might be using this proxy server. Who knows. > > Think of it this way.... > > one client eating up a lot of bandwidth, or tens of thousands of clients > collectively eating up the same amount of bandwidth. > > It just so happens that your site may have a lot of AOL visitors on it. > > Hope that helps > -dant > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. > See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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