Re: [squid-users] anonymizer.com style proxy

This would almost work, except for two problems with meeting Joshua's
requirements:

1. No form is presentable without a webserver.
2. Sites will hop off of the proxy as soon as an absolute link is used.
   This some images on a site, or some links off of a site would cause
the client to go direct to that site.

Squid could be hacked to solve both of these problems (by adding proper
HTTP web service to Squid and adding inline URL processing), and the
performance would be much better than a CGI solution. But that would
require some coding.

Brian wrote:

> Could you use a redirector to translate the url? Like
> http://anon.somesite.com/www.squid-cache.org/
> redirector returns
> http://www.squid-cache.org/
>
> ?
>
> On Thursday 14 November 2002 01:24 pm, Joe Cooper wrote:
>
> >I don't think this is a job for Squid. You probably want a CGI script
> >running on a normal webserver, that presents the form and loads the
> >appropriate page /and/ processes the incoming page to fix links to point
> >to your script with an appropriate query string.
> >
> >Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:
> >
> >>Hi!
> >>
> >>I would like to set up an anonymizer.com-style proxy. By this
> >>I mean a web page (could be frames) from which you can connect to any
> >>website and anything you go to within that browser window will be
> >>proxied. Users do not have to enter any settings.
> >>Could anyone who has done this before give me some pointers?

-- 
Joe Cooper <joe@swelltech.com>
Web caching appliances and support.
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