[Tsvwg] Re: [e2e] e2e principle..where??....

[Manish Karir]

On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Narin Suphasindhu wrote:

> :> However, caching proxies do the same thing...they terminate TCP connection
> :> from client to them and then build another one from them to server(on cache
> :> miss)... therefore they too are not e2e.
> 
> In the case of cache misses, the Cache Proxy fetches the objects from the
> primary server, caches them, then re-serves the objects to the client.  

not true...check out:
http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/Prog-Guide/prog-guide-4.html
the proxy replies to the client as soon as it fetches data from server..
and continues to server the client data when and as data from 
the server comes in...

but your other points still hold though...


manish karir