On Thu 20 Oct 2011 12:30:46 PM IST, Gautam Chaudhary wrote: > I don't have enough knowledge about this caching mechanism is > implemented, but i have a question on how will it maintain the privacy > of user files. > > If two users request same file through same url, its doesn't always > mean that these are same. They might be generated dynamically > different for every logged in user to some website, but the file name > might be same for all. > > On 10/20/11, Arjun Suresh Raji <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 02:00, Parveen Arora <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Is there any way that if we download something once at college network at >>> college server and the other requests of > downloding the same thing from >>> same network will be responded back automatically from that colllege >>> server. >> >> Set up a caching proxy. Squid is good idea. But the central bottle >> neck could bring down your network if traffic isn't properly handled. >> >> -- >> Arjun S R >> http://about.me/arjunsr >> >> -- >> Mailing list guidelines and other related articles: >> http://lug-iitd.org/Footer >> > >
If the source site really cares about user's privacy, then it should be using SSL, making proxy ineffective. -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com -- Mailing list guidelines and other related articles: http://lug-iitd.org/Footer
