[geeks] Encrypted Web Proxy

Sheldon T. Hall shel at tandem.artell.net
Fri Aug 25 10:24:23 CDT 2006


Quoth Joshua Boyd ...
> On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 10:55:30AM -0400, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
> 
> > This is the kind of thing I'm looking for, but I was hoping to use 
> > something smaller than Squid.  Preferably something where I 
> > could stand 
> > a chance of reading and understanding the source code 
> > quickly.  Squid is 
> > just a bit too big to do it in a reasonable amount of time.
> 
> Try htprox then.  It is a perl program that is a non-caching proxy.

For that matter, what about a shell script that attaches to a port, gets the
requests, uses wget to fulfil them, and pipes the result of wget back to the
requestor?  I mean, a simple HTTP server is about six lines of Bourne
shell....

-Shel



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