Re: Global proxy autoconfig script?

From: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis <jonny@dont-contact.us>
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 23:41:18 -0300 (EST)

#define quoting(Miguel A.L. Paraz)
// Instead of just displaying a message that "you have to dial into our network
// to use our cache, please turn your proxies off", etc., how about creating
// a global cache registry, keyed on IP networks? When the user sets their
// autoproxy config URL to this script, the script will look up their IP
// network and find the best proxy for them.
//
// ISPs will then register their caches with this service; for example,
// 203.176.0.0/19 may be served by www-proxy.iphil.net.

Perhaps his would be good as a sub-routine to each ISP own auto-config
file, but is this scalable ? Autooconfig is nothing but a java script,
interpreted for EACH object. Is this is BIG, it will be SLOW...

                                        Jonny

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Received on Mon Sep 08 1997 - 19:49:30 MDT

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