Ok, well I definitely won't pursue the blind
route. How would an HTTP Proxy behave in this
situation? Surely it wouldn't parse out HTML.
The thing is, the proxy doesn't have to. The client understands the proxy protocol. It *explicitly* requests the page *through the proxy*, thus knowing exactly that the proxy is only a proxy and not the actual server hosting the requested document. The proxy does therefore not have to tamper with the HTTP message body.
The proxy is quite blind in respect of the HTTP message body (it's only iterested in its length and transfer encoding basically). But it is very sensitive to the HTTP headers. It ensures proper transport of the document between the two ends.
Odi
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