Re: [WikiEN-l] [Wikitech-l] How to get around AOL proxies?

Neil Harris wrote: >Ilmari Karonen wrote: >> >>If that really works, couldn't we just make AOL users _edit_ over SSL? >>Have http links with action=edit (or action=submit) redirect to an https >>URL if fetched from an AOL proxy. >> >>This would break talk message notification for unregistered AOL users, >>but I suppose we could use a cookie for that. After all, talk pages are >>public, so there's no security issue even if someone fakes the cookie. > >Now, that's an *excellent* idea. > >1 the SSL overhead will be low, because edits are a tiny fraction of the >overall traffic >2 If we only SSL the form submission, this limits the SSL overhead even >further. >3 AOL browsing will still be proxied, so page-view load will not increase >4 AOL _browsing_ will still be completely anonymous >5 AOL IP editors will still be as anonymous as any other IP editors >6 Dynamic IP assignment should not be any more or less of a problem than >with other ISPs > >Are there any reasons why this should not work? Perhaps this could be >the solution for all non-XFF-friendly ISPs?

And, on re-reading, perhaps for AOL users only, the "my talk page" link could be an SSL link which would then auto-redirect to the appropriate IP address talk page, thus eliminating any need for a cookie.