The proxy-cache of the ADSL of Telefónica punishes particularly webmasters

Recently BalearWeb has received many consultations from webmasters who host their pages on the free service BalearWeb FREEmail, about the impossibility of updating their webs. They are editors of web pages that after having send new contents to the server, find old versions on the webs. Why? Is this a problem of BalearWeb? The answer is clear: no, the cause of this inconvenience is Telefónica.

With a view to saving bandwidth, since January 10 Telefónica is using a transparent "proxy-cache" that affects all the internauts who have contracted an ADSL connection with this company, or with any of the operators who use the same Telefónica network, such as Wanadoo.

The proxy-cache is an intermediate memory that stores for a certain time a copy of the pages that the internauts visit, and when these pages are visited again, either by the same user or by others, the memorised page is shown instead of the real contents of the server. It is possible to force the updating of the pages in the navigator by pressing the keys Control + F5 (on Internet Explorer), or the key Shift (Capitals) and the button "Reload" at the same time (on Netscape).

Information on the activation of the new proxy-cache can be found on this page of Telefónica. Those who speak about the many inconveniences generated by the new system, are Asociación de Internautas, the Plataforma Internauta, several articles of the weblog Barrapunto.com and many other media, such as the portal Ayuda ADSL.com, that explains how to complain against the proxy-cache of Telefónica. Different tools have also been created online to find out if our connection is behind a proxy.

Datum: 25/01/2003

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