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Originally Posted by simbr
The proxies have never directly caused problems with secure sites since they only intercept traffic on port 80, not port 443. The only issues I've ever seen that they have caused was when remote sites blocked a particular proxy, the ebay/yahoo login issue that existed at one point. The only proxies I've ever known to become overloaded at peak times was the edin set.
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Believe me and many ntl:/Virgin Media customers, whether as an indirect (or otherwise) cause, when Cable Modem connections were passed through a local Cache Server, it caused some or "ALL" secure sites not to allow the user to get past the login screen. More often, whole areas had no browsing at all; Now the proxies are (mostly) by-passed, it's not going to happen..... oooerrr let me qualify that, it won't to be due to a PROXY/CACHE issue, which was the USUAL cause!
The negatives are slightly slower browsing or
more importantly no automatic back-up cache if a DNS server goes down.
I used to work for Virgin Media, but I'm 
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