Tim wrote:
> Proxying can only speed things up, for you, if you access something
> that someone else has already accessed before you. *And* if that
> data is cacheable.
I replied:
> In general, true.
>
> It doesn’t sound as though this service is conventional proxying,
> though. It sounds like they’re dynamically rewriting web pages to
> reduce the number of TCP/IP round trips. Since a round trip via a
> satellite takes about half a second, there’s a lot of scope for
> speeding things up.
Tim wrote:
> Even pre-fetching is still dependent on the data being cacheable.
It’s not really pre-fetching, either: it’s just a translation layer. As
you note, though:
> Some
> sites just don't work well with any sort of proxying, and some are
> deliberately hostile to it.
it’s not something the sites expect.
I should note, though, that Opera Mini does something rather similar
(this time, to reduce bandwidth requirements and CPU requirements on
mobile phones), so it’s not that unusual.
James.
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