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## 1 Background

• The web: |  | The web and HTTP.
• Proxies and caches: |  | Proxies and caches.
• Latency and throughput: |  | Optimise latency, not throughput.
• Network traffic: |  | Be nice to the net.
• Partial instances: |  | Don’t discard data.
• POST and PUT: |  | Other requests
• Other HTTP proxies: |  | Why did I write Polipo from scratch?