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|    bit-naughty@hotmail.com to Lew Pitcher    |
|    Re: Adult site blocking    |
|    24 Dec 15 11:27:51    |
      On Sunday, December 20, 2015 at 11:51:18 PM UTC+5:30, Lew Pitcher wrote:       > B) The user's ISP implements a proxy web server and directs the user's HTTP       > requests to/through it. The proxy web server detects a request for a "banned"       > site, intercepts it and replies to the user with a canned "blocked" webpage.       >                     Is this what they call an "intercepting proxy"? How does this work? It's       completely transparent to the browser, right? - it doesn't know the original       web server is not what it's talking to....?              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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