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If you connect remote communities with poor bandwidth http allows a shared cache behind the bandwidth bottleneck. And other caching scenarios.


Could you elaborate on this? I'm curious as to how a setup like this would work in practice. Many people in my family live in rural areas so the topic of restricted bandwidth/poor connection quality is of great interest to me.


https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2018/08/07/securing-sites...

“But there I stood anyway, hoping my requests to load simple web pages would bear fruit, and I could continue teaching basic web principles to a group of vocational students. Because Wikipedia wouldn’t cache. Google wouldn’t cache. Meyerweb wouldn’t cache. Almost nothing would cache. Why? HTTPS.”


Thanks for the excellent link, discussed on HN a while ago [1]. For those that think an sslstriping proxy would solve it please remember that this would degrade the security for requests that really have to be encrypted.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17707187




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