Re: heuristic for server names

Joe Laffey wrote:
>
> On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, Kendall Lister wrote:
> > >
> > > However, if you tell Netscape to use a proxy server, it will let the
> > > proxy server do DNS instead
> >
> > I see. My problem with getting Squid (or actually any program) to do this
> > sort of thing is localisation. I might want "microsoft" to give me
> > "www.microsoft.com.au", and someone in Japan might want
> > "www.microsoft.com.jp". Perhaps a better solution would be a background
> > program to run on the client machine that intercepts certain web requests
> > and rewrites them, in a fashion similar to Getright or Alexa? This might
> > make localisation (i.e. non-US-centricism) easier. Or even a plug-in for
> > browsers?
>
> Or, if this functionality were added to Squid there could be a setting in
> the form of "www.*.com" or "www.*.com.au" that would add whatever the
> sysadmin wanted to existing URLs. Sure this wouldn't get everything right
> because there will be domain names that are different from this default.
> It would however get many correct, which is more than it is doing now.

I would have to fetch out my copy of the HTTP spec (which is several
kilometres away right now) but I think it's an HTTP violation for a
proxy to do this. I believe a client is at liberty to do so, but not a
proxy...Not and be conformant, anyways.

D
Received on Fri Jun 11 1999 - 07:13:36 MDT