bao song wrote: > I looked at Andrew's statistics. > > With Polipo, if one keeps re-loading the same page over and over, it > takes a bit longer the first time, but then all subsequent loads are > retrieved from cache, so there's no download time. Effectively (rounding > the tiny number of milliseconds for retrieval from cache to zero), > looking at the same page over and over becomes instantaneous after the > first time when it's cached. However, I'm not clear on the value of > this, unless the cache is encrypted. > > What page would I wish to look at over and over but not download? Icons, invariant included pictures. On a site with frames the index. > > And if I don't want the page on my hard drive, would I want it in the > Polipo cache? > > *** > > In a related topic, since Andrew questioned the value of Privoxy, I > turned it off via Torbutton, and Yahoo mail now loads cleanly, if > slowly, using only Tor. I don't notice a big improvement in overall > speed, but this is only a subjective measure, I haven't really done any > objective stats. And I'm not really concerned if turning Privoxy off > saves me an unnoticeable amount of time. > > However, I'm also wondering, what dangers am I incurring bypassing Privoxy? Unsanitized HTML can break anonymity in all sorts of clever ways. > > Yours, > > Michael > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Find local businesses and services in your area with Yahoo!7 Local. Get > started < > http://au.rd.yahoo.com/search/local/mailtagline/*http://local.yahoo.com.au>. >
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