Synopsis: proxy server -- building and features State-Changed-From-To: open-closed State-Changed-By: marc State-Changed-When: Sun Aug 3 17:08:43 PDT 1997 State-Changed-Why: Thanks for the comments.
We are integrating a generic way to test for old broken silly compilers into the next release. While we are quite security concious, because of its very design and size, even if you did chop most of it off, Apache isn't really designed to be used as a proxy on a dedicated firewall machine. The idea of filtering things will probably be more practical in 2.0, when we will hopefully have an easier way to pass streams through programms. I'm not sure we really want to be encouraging its use for running on a firewall; the number of lines of code are bigger than is good for such an application. If someone has the expertise to do it right, it can be practical, but that is up to the individual.
