Hello, On Sat, 18 Jul 2009, Gaurav Paliwal wrote: > I want to provide the off campus access to the resources of library for the > guys who are outside the campus.The must widely used software for this is > ezproxy but this is not open source and a bit costly.Is their any open > source software to do this ?? I have tried squid but the problem is that it > cannot be used by the guys that are itself behind any other proxy.
I think your problem is not clearly stated, so I am guessing a bit. Your user is in a network where access to the internet is tightly controlled as follows. The user can only connect to a specific web proxy server within this network; this web proxy then provides the connection for the user. Your network has access to some web resources which you want to provide for this user. One way to do this is to create a reverse proxy (like apache's reverse proxy) to front for the actual web servers. You may also need some mod_rewrite stuff to re-map the urls inside the web pages served. (You should probably also require authentication on the reverse proxy or you will have an open proxy!) One disadvantage of this method is that the user does not get the actual URLs of the pages served and so bookmarks may be garbled. A different approach is to setup a VPN server (openvpn can listen on any specified port like port 80 or port 443). Each user then activates the VPN. You provide access to your resources on the VPN. Regards, Kapil. -- _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [email protected] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
