Re: [Phplib-users] new Session4 changes

[Richard A. <rh...@ju...>]

At 12:39 +0100 2/12/02, Giancarlo wrote:

>Ignorant question: is these something that is going, without user
>knowledge, store URL requests, or is that only true for httpd proxy
>servers? Or we can be under an https or socks proxy without knowing or
>having set anything special. This is about the supposedly encrypted
>QUERY_STRING in an https request being forwarded by proxies.

I use to use an ISP which transparently proxied all traffic -- http
and https. I know this because it broke my internet banking and I had
to change ISPs.

I have no idea why they proxied https... the proxy just tunnels the
requests through to the origin server and no caching can take place.

Any ISPs which run caching proxy servers behind a load balancer will
break any IP address based session scheme. And I hear there are more
of these caches being installed as major ISPs in the US struggle to
remain (become?) profitable in the face of thinning margins.

 ...R.