There's a large number of web users - like myself - who benefited from transparent proxies. The IETF's complaints are probably almost certainly due to incompati

There's a large number of web users - like myself - who benefited from transparent proxies. The IETF's complaints are probably almost certainly due to incompatibilities between products and erroneous modification of streams in transit, which of course should not happen. But it certainly doesn't need to die - if we killed technology for that, the whole WWW wouldn't exist.