On Sat, 2006-07-22 at 16:01 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > I'm thinking of running squid on my laptop. Is this a silly > idea?
I don't think that running a web proxy on your laptop is a silly idea. Choosing squid, though, might be. :-) I'm a big fan of wwwoffle ( http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/wwwoffle/ ) for portable machines. It's a smaller lighter-weight proxy with a bunch of features that are much nicer for machines with transient interweb connections. If nothing else, being able to easily switch between off-line and on-line modes at a command-prompt makes it worthwhile. > The problem I'm trying to solve is that I get network access > in a couple of different places. Some places I have direct > access to the net and others I need to go via a proxy. I > also run Firefox with the Session Saver plugin and I'm getting > sick of having to switch the Firefox connection settings over > between a proxy and direct connection. I'm not sure how easy it is to reconfigure wwwoffle with upstream proxies on the fly. But, then again, I'm not sure how easy it would be to do the same thing with squid. I've been thinking about trying to work some sort of arrangement to tie NetworkManager to wwwoffle to dynamically update proxy settings. But seeing as I'm currently pretty much tied to a single desktop machine on a single network, it's not very high on my to-do list. Might still be an interesting project, though. Cheers, -- Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
