Ari Luotonen

Ari Luotonen is a Finnish software developer and author.
He graduated in 1993 from the Tampere University of Technology with a Master of Arts in Mathematics. After his graduation, he worked for six months in application development for Lotus. In July 1994, he moved to Paris and Geneva to work for CERN. There, he wrote a large proportion of CERN httpd, especially HTTP caching -Support. In addition, Luotonen contributed to the implementation of numerous CGI applications, the most famous being the WIT - W3 Interactive Talk.
In September 1994, Luotonen began working at Mosaic Communications, founded a few months earlier. Mosaic would become in two months time as of November 1994 the renamed Netscape Communications Corporation.

• — (1997). Web Proxy Servers. Prentice Hall. ISBN 0-13-680612-0.