Re: AOL "proxy" behavior?

From: Kurt Seifried (bugtraqat_private)
Date: Mon Aug 19 2002 - 21:48:53 PDT

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    Uhhh yeah, a single HTTP session can go through multiple sessions quite
    easily. Microsoft CARP (Cache Array Routing Protocol) can easily cause this:
    
    http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnproxy/htm
    l/carp.asp
    
    This is quite common from larger ISPs, like AOL, with a few tens of millions
    of clients and god only knows how many web proxies.
    
    Kurt Seifried, kurtat_private
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