I am curious as to how these compile? I guess you had to add 
dependencies on all the service modules? On 1.7.x the W*SConfig classes 
were all in main, but in trunk the W*SInfo classes are in the respective 
service modules.

David Winslow wrote:
> Okay, a basic proxy restlet has hit trunk.  I had to make a few
> modifications to the rest module to get it to compile, but have not
> committed these.  A patch is attached if someone (jdeolive, maybe?)
> would care to review.  I guess I'll need to update the code anyway when
> the changes from 1.7.x are ported forward anyway so perhaps it's not
> that important that this compiles right now.
> 
> --
> David Winslow
> OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org/
> 
> On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 13:16 -0400, David Winslow wrote:
>> The proxy is not for hosting the application itself, but allowing it to
>> circumvent the same-origin policy imposed on JavaScript applications by
>> web browsers (JavaScript applications cannot make HTTP requests to
>> domains other than the one hosting the page they run in).  This is only
>> needed for OpenLayers applications that need to read XML data from
>> third-party servers.
>>
>> For the curious, more on the same-origin policy:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same_origin_policy
>>
>> --
>> David Winslow
>> OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org/
>>
>> On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 19:08 +0200, Andrea Aime wrote:
>>> David Winslow ha scritto:
>>>> Hey all,
>>>>
>>>> In order to simplify deployment of OpenLayers applications on top of
>>>> GeoServer, I would like to create a community module on trunk that
>>>> mimics the proxy.cgi script that is often used with OpenLayers.
>>>> Basically, this script accepts a URL as a query parameter and forwards
>>>> the request to another server, allowing OpenLayers applications to load
>>>> feature data and other resources from servers other than the one hosting
>>>> the application.  The script would eventually allow for host-based and
>>>> mimetype-based filtering of proxied requests to help admins prevent
>>>> abuse.
>>>>
>>>> If there are no objections I'd like to get this into SVN later today.
>>> No objections, but one curiosity. How is this better than the "www" 
>>> folder provided in the data dir (that allows for static file publishing?)
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Andrea
>>>
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