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Originally Posted by Mr.Moony
This would screw up the load balance, cause more proxy related issues, increase network traffic, make browsing slow (although faster to some).
I havent taken a proxy related call in donkeys. Im sure allot of people on here look into things to deeply and blame the proxy servers because they know what it is. (well roughly). If it wasnt chache servers it would be something else.
Im starting a petition to not not user proxy servers. Yar.
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Hmm, you're an NTL Tech ? In that case could you please explain to me how this will screw up "load balance" (indeed, load balance of what ?).
IMO it would not make most peoples browsing any slower [or faster] - but many would notice that they no longer get zero response (or stale pages) because the damn things don't work properly. Still - I'm willing to change my view if you can prove otherwise.
I would not attach much significance to the fact that you haven't taken a "proxy related" call in ages - like many people I haven't made one in ages but this doesn't alter the fact that they still fail regularly. Those who know enough to blame them also know how to change them.
Proxy servers are becoming more and more of a waste of time anyway as more and more sites are becoming dynamic rather than static so the proxy is still having to go and get the updated page everytime (except that NTL's often don't resulting in errors) - they are now just becoming itermediate, unneccessary, failure prone, repeaters.