[thelist] AOl proxy cache

Bill Haenel bill at webmarketingworx.com
Fri Jul 13 13:36:01 CDT 2001


After posting my original message on this topic, I did some searching around
and found an interesting blurb on the subject of caching here if anyone's
interested:

http://www.htmlhelp.com/faq/html/all.html#no-cache

Very brief, but very illuminating if you're new to the concept like I was.

BH



> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org]On Behalf Of Pearson, John
> Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 14:25
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> Subject: RE: [thelist] AOl proxy cache
>
>
> there's another wrinkle.  I looked at our logs for one of my
> visits which I could
> track because of a unique browser ID and what I looked at.  What
> I discovered was
> that in the log the cache IP seemed to change for every page
> request, so my one
> visit became a dozen IP visits from different aol cache servers.
>
> So you could argue that the caching process balances out the fact
> that you don't
> see all of its users.  Caching may be pretty standard for
> corporate networks, so
> we basically forget about it.  Just another reason why logs are
> indicative rather
> than precise.
>
>
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