On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 04:33:20PM +0100, Troels Henriksen wrote: > Kurt H Maier <khm-suckl...@intma.in> writes: > > > On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 03:30:38PM +0000, Nick wrote: > >> > >> The way I do it with a local proxy means that said requests are > >> stripped out of the HTML before reaching the browser. DNS based > >> things will presumably fail immediately with /etc/hosts, rather > >> than time out. > > > > But you're still wasting the bandwidth. It's insane. > > The bandwidth to the local proxy? How exactly is anything being wasted? >
Well, he said the "requests are stripped out of the HTML" which doesn't make a ton of sense. Is it requesting all elements in a page and then stripping them, or what?
