Proxy code size.

Reading through the email archives I am forming a conjecture about the
alarmingly large size of caching proxies:

My conjecture is:
        A caching proxy attempts to be transparent,
        which means it must simulate the internet as a whole.
        In general this cannot be done, and there is no short
        finite set of rules that if followed will yield
        an acceptable simulation.

        The writer of a caching proxy encounters an unending stream
        of unforeseen and unexpected cases, which he must deal with
        as best he can, with the result that the code of a caching
        proxy tends to grow without limit.

Does this conjecture seem to describe the code growth that you have
encountered?
Received on Wed Aug 11 1999 - 16:56:28 MDT