Re: [proxyTools-users] Re: proxyTools-users digest, Vol 1 #9 - 1 msg Elite Proxy

[wayne <wa...@ny...>]

> From: Chuck C <ca...@ya...>
> To: pro...@li...
> Subject: [proxyTools-users] Re: proxyTools-users digest, Vol 1 #9 - 1 msg Elite Proxy
> 
> Hi Mike
> Be glad to send something but I never got an answer before.  

Sorry, I just returned from holiday yesterday. 
Now I'm starting at the latest emails first :-)

> Question is, what is an elite proxy, what makes it different and what is it used for.

'Elite' is a term used by only a few people, AFAIK. 
And even fewer of them seem to know how to define it.

When you request a web page, a normal anonymous proxy 
doesn't pass your IP address on to the web site in any headers, 
but it does indicate that the request has come via a proxy (it 
adds a header or two to indicate that it itself is a proxy).
From my inquiries, I understand 'Elite' to mean a proxy that doesn't 
reveal it's presence (it doesn't add or modify any headers). 
It looks to me like this only applies to normal GET/POST requests 
(and that's the way they are found too).

As far as I can see, the only advantage over the normal anon proxy 
would be in cases where the destination service (web site) would 
take some extra action (log extra stuff, maybe even check the proxy 
in some way) if it was aware that a proxy was in use. Presumably 
there are cases where you don't want this to happen. Using POST to 
send spam email is one that comes to mind (smtp servers might be 
configured to not accept email from a proxy).

> Thanks
> Chuck

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