begin  quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] as of Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 12:37:20PM -0800:
> > Block all ports, redirect port 80 to a caching proxy and only
> > allow that proxy access through port 80 on the firewall.
> 
> What is value of redirecting all http traffic thru a proxy?
> That just lets the proxy view the traffic that passes by
> unless I'm mistaken.

Caching. And with the prevalence of folks tunnelling stuff over HTTP,
firewalling.

-Stewart "When I said 'no RPC', I didn't mean 'except over HTTP'" Stremler
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