> Vincent Bray wrote:
> > I'm a bit confused by your terminology. From what I understand a
> > transparent proxy is the kind which is put in front of clients by
> > dodgy ISPs (such as my own) to perform things like caching and
> > nanny-filtering, without having to properly configure a proxy in the
> > user's browser.
On 02.08.07 18:51, Jason Haar wrote:
> Yup - that's a transparent *forwarding* proxy.
no, it's an *intercepting* proxy. Looking to RFC 2616, the transparent proxy
is defined this way:
A "transparent proxy" is a proxy that does not modify the request or
response beyond what is required for proxy authentication and
identification. A "non-transparent proxy" is a proxy that modifies
the request or response in order to provide some added service to
the user agent, such as group annotation services, media type
transformation, protocol reduction, or anonymity filtering.
I know that many ppl call intercepting proxy a "transparent" proxy, but
that's incorrect.
... we are talking about HTTP protocol, aren't we?
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