Re: Understanding http proxies

2012-10-15 Thread Olive
Thank you for all yours answers. There are very usefull! Olive -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Understanding http proxies

2012-10-14 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 13Oct2012 20:43, Olive wrote: | I am trying to understand how to build an http proxy server in python, | and I have found the following example: | http://www.oki-osk.jp/esc/python/proxy/ | | But I do not have found an exact description of what exactly a proxy | server is suppose to do (all ref

Re: Understanding http proxies

2012-10-14 Thread Tim Roberts
Olive wrote: > >it seems when I read the code above that the proxy acts mostly as an >orinary server with respect to the client except that it is supposed to >receive the full URL instead of just the path. Am I right? Is there any >documentation on what an http proxy is supposed to implement. Con

Re: Understanding http proxies

2012-10-13 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 5:43 AM, Olive wrote: > it seems when I read the code above that the proxy acts mostly as an > orinary server with respect to the client except that it is supposed to > receive the full URL instead of just the path. Am I right? Is there any > documentation on what an http p

Understanding http proxies

2012-10-13 Thread Olive
I am trying to understand how to build an http proxy server in python, and I have found the following example: http://www.oki-osk.jp/esc/python/proxy/ But I do not have found an exact description of what exactly a proxy server is suppose to do (all references gice only the basic principe of proxy