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@@ -1135,11 +1135,13 @@ the request reaches your website.
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Here are a few examples of downstream caches:
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-* Your ISP may cache certain pages, so if you requested a page from
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- https://example.com/, your ISP would send you the page without having to
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- access example.com directly. The maintainers of example.com have no
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- knowledge of this caching; the ISP sits between example.com and your Web
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- browser, handling all of the caching transparently.
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+* When using HTTP, your :abbr:`ISP (Internet Service Provider)` may cache
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+ certain pages, so if you requested a page from ``http://example.com/``, your
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+ ISP would send you the page without having to access example.com directly.
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+ The maintainers of example.com have no knowledge of this caching; the ISP
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+ sits between example.com and your Web browser, handling all of the caching
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+ transparently. Such caching is not possible under HTTPS as it would
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+ constitute a man-in-the-middle attack.
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* Your Django website may sit behind a *proxy cache*, such as Squid Web
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Proxy Cache (http://www.squid-cache.org/), that caches pages for
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