[X-Unix] OT: Web proxy?

Eric F Crist ecrist at secure-computing.net
Sun Aug 28 05:47:13 PDT 2005


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On Aug 28, 2005, at 7:44 AM, John Harrold wrote:

> Sometime in August Eric F Crist assaulted the keyboard and produced:
>
> | How, exactly, would that operate?  Would it be as simple as I stated
> | above, or would it require reconfiguration of the web browser on the
> | client's machine?
>
> First you install squid on your server call it bob.com -- normally  
> it runs
> on port 3128. Then on the client you tell the webbrowser to use a  
> proxy
> server. For example in firefox: edit --> preferences --> general -->
> connection settings. Select manual proxy configuration, and put  
> bob.com and
> 3128 for your server and proxy port, respectively.

The solution I'm looking for is one where I don't need to perform any  
configuration changes to the client machine, only modify the URL  
within the browser.

Is there a way to do this with squid?  Perhaps some sort of web- 
interface?

_______________________________________________________
Eric F Crist                  "I am so smart, S.M.R.T!"
Secure Computing Networks              -Homer J Simpson

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