On ד', 2005-11-23 at 17:46 +0200, Eran Tromer wrote: > Is this the simplest way to do it? What's the most lightweight that's > compliant with modern standards? Note that it doesn't need to do any > caching, just either simple forwarding [3] or simple fetching. Squid > will work, but is a bloated overkill for this task; and all "tiny" > proxies I tried were badly broken.
Have you tried Apache with mod_proxy? It has a feature to redirect requests to a peer proxy (ProxyRemote), should be reasonably lightweight (with each new version, Apache gets more modular) and - well - what's more likely to be standard-compliant than Apache? > BTW, it seems that Windows has the same problem; but there, many > applications rely on the MSIE settings in the registry, and these can > and are dynamically changed (no restart required, unlike with http_proxy). But we're getting there. Newer versions of Firefox should get their proxy settings from GConf, which just like the Windows registry lets interested applications know when settings have changed. It doesn't help you much with all those wgets and lynxes, though. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
