Re: Choosing proxy on location

Lincoln Dale wrote:
>
> At 01:25 12/11/99 +0100, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> >Lincoln Dale wrote:
> >
> > > WCCP will do what you want -- provided you have a cisco router in which to
> > > do transparent interception.
> > >
> > > works for every kind of browser, doesn't require browser reconfiguration.
> >
> >Except that reload won't work in Internet Explorer then..
> >(problem inhererent to all TCP hijacking methods, not isolated to WCCP)
>
> wrong.
>
> it seems that Microsoft has fixed the problem.
>
> in the IE5 i just installed (version says "5.00.2314.1003"), MSIE issues
> appropriate If-Modified-Since headers for both 'reload' and 'shift-reload'
> when no proxy is defined.

Fairly recent then. Is there anything to distinguish that version from
the other version 5's that are out there? Or do they all claim to be the
same version (build-numbers notwithstanding)? (ie: If a user goes to
windows update, will it recognise that the version 5 that is available
is not the same as the one they have installed?)

D
Received on Thu Nov 11 1999 - 20:00:31 MST