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RE: ISP is just too fascist





Petrisor Eddy Marian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Russell Coker [mailto:russell@coker.com.au]
> Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 1:05 PM
> To: Petrisor Marian; 'debian-isp@lists.debian.org'
> Subject: Re: ISP is just too fascist
> 
> On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 16:43, Petrisor Marian wrote:
> > Hey, I was wondering: is there a way to lie to a squid server about the
> > identity of the requested files over the internet ? I have internet on
> LAN
> > through a proxy server that runs squid and the thing is that the ISP
> made a
> > download/machine/day limit of 1.2MB.
> >
> > I saw that after I pass over the limit, new downloads are going just
> fine
> > for a few hundred KB and then is limited to 50B/s. The ISP uses MAC
> 
> This should be easy to solve for static content.

This is only static contents as is there are updates. (Packages.gz files and debs)

> Just have a proxy that
> does
> repeated partial transfers.  The HTTP protocol allows resuming a file
> part-way through, so when it goes slow you can just drop the connection
> and
> start a new one where the previous one finished.
> 

So I have to setup a proxy on my PC that I will go through rather than going directly through my ISP's proxy?

I mean the net will be like:

PC - MYProxy - ISP's Proxy - Internet ?


> The problem is that this isn't going to work for dynamic content (CGI-BIN
> scripts etc).
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