[ale] Next proxy question

[Christopher Fowler]

Why not a proxy that simply opens a socket to the remote machine issues
the GET / or POST then simply binds the browser and the remote together
with a select().

if(remote) {
  read remote;
  write client
} else if(client) {
  read client;
  write remote;
}

That may work.
On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 15:15, Fletch wrote:
> >>>>> "Christopher" == Christopher Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> writes:
> 
>     Christopher> My proxy server is 192.168.3.1:8181 and will only
>     Christopher> proxy to machines across a wan via dial-up and vtun.
>     Christopher> I need from IE somehow use that proxy on a temp basis
>     Christopher> without having to go into proxy setup each time a
>     Christopher> user needs access to those machines.
> 
>     Christopher> One idea was to try this:
> 
>     Christopher> http://192.168.3.1:8181/10.0.5.176/
> 
>     Christopher> That does not even look right.  Is there any way to
>     Christopher> use a proxy server on demand or should I create a
>     Christopher> proxy server that will support that feature.  Maybe
>     Christopher> the browser will choke?
> 
> 
> You could always write a CGI which takes everything after it
> (i.e. path_info) and use LWP to retrieve the contents through a
> proxy.  Of course the rub there is that you'd need to see if the
> content type is text/html and massage any URLs in it to point through
> the proxy as well, and that's not going to be an extremely easy task
> (you can do it with off the shelf modules in Perl, it's just not 2-3
> lines to do so (for normal 72-character values of line)).
> 
> 
> As for the access control, you want to set up an acl that's your OK
> network and then do something like:
> 
> http_access allow my_net
> http_access deny !my_net
> 
> 
> The default sample squid config should have examples of this, just
> search for "acl" and "http_access".