Re: proxy must tell client not to use it (was: security)

Markus Stumpf (stumpf@informatik.tu-muenchen.de)
Sun, 9 Oct 1994 13:15:25 +0100

Date: Sun, 9 Oct 1994 13:15:25 +0100
Message-Id: <378mqg$qt8@hpsystem1.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
From: stumpf@informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Markus Stumpf)
To: Multiple recipients of list <www-proxy@www0.cern.ch>
Subject: Re: proxy must tell client not to use it (was: security)

reinpost@win.tue.nl (Reinier Post) writes:

>configuration. There is no way for a (proxy) server to tell the client
>to get a document elsewhere.

Hmmm ... the server could send a REDIRECT of the same URL and add
a MIME field
Pragma: no-proxy
which could be interpreted by the client.
Thus there wouldn't be the need to change the protocol.

\Maex

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