[Gllug] Re: [OT] Google 403 Forbbiden

[William Palfreman]

On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Walid wrote:

> Well BlueYonder help page says I am :
> 
> "All Broadband(cable modem) and Dial Up users are transparently cached. This
> means that you do not need to enter any cache settings into your browser"
> Transparent proxies are hard to bypass!

Cable London (as was) used to be very good.  Now they are doing cheap
tricks like this.  What I want is a real Internet connection, a bona-fida
TCP/IP link between A (me) and B (www.kiddiepron.com or whatever their
logs show up).  Transparent caching is intrusive, and at least in my mind
associated with lots of errors.  It won't be long before some ISP has a
"licence agreement" to only allow through IE HTTP headers - for
compatibility/support/maximum customer satisfaction reasons.  Its part of
the trend separating the Internet into a useful end with leased lines,
and a "consumer" end with NAT/PAT and over-cached ports 80 and 443 only,
and an IP address changing every couple of hours.

Bill.


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