At 02:41 PM 9/4/2003, Joshua Slive wrote:

>> Seriously, we could add a default deny for outgoing port
>> 25 (smtp) and 6660-6670 (irc) proxied connections.
>> This won't really hurt anyone as I don't see any reasons
>> why anybody would want that. A special "AllowProxyPorts 25 6660-6670"
>> directive could then turn those ports open too.
>> We could even try to limit it to defaultly allowing only
>> the proxying of port 80 and 443 and denying the rest for instance.
>
>Bill Wrowe is a fan of the last idea.  I'm neutral about making it the
>default, but I think it would be good to make it configurable.
>
>You should be specific here, however.  We are talking about a directive
>that would allow *outgoing* proxy connections only on specific ports.  For
>example
>AllowForwardProxy 80 8080 8888

I'm thinking even a patternmatch might not be a bad idea, just crufty as
all can be...

AllowForwardProxy *80

Food for thought.

Bill

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