Webpage picketing?...

[Bill Frantz]

At 6:35 PM -0700 6/2/97, Jim Choate wrote:
>I have been looking at how to impliment picketing on the web. To date I have
>been unable to come up with a way to force a connection to one machine to go
>through a third machine in order to express some view about the original
>target.
>
>This idea came to me while watching some folks picket a local grocer over
>something I couldn't make out (the signs were poorly done). It occured to me
>that since one could argue that the links between sites are public avenues a
>site could 'picket' another site. The question became at this point, how?

Use the same techniques as the anonymoizing web proxies.  They re-form the
URLs in web page links, so you always go thru the proxy.


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