Well, it might be possible to design an applet that pulled someone's public IP (maybe by polling your site directly? Have to make sure not local IP) then cross that against the request origin into Tomcat; if they don't match then that could be construed as a Proxy situation. I am not sure how a proxy would handle an applet making such a request; that would predicate this working or not.
Charlie The significant problems we have can not be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them. ~Albert Einstein -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 9:20 AM To: users@tomcat.apache.org Subject: Blocking Proxy Access Importance: High See Thread at: http://www.techienuggets.com/Detail?tx=41765 Posted on behalf of a User Is there anyway to detect that a web user is trying to access my site via an open/anonymous proxy? Other than building a list of open proxy IP addresses and checking against it? This list would be huge and ever changing. There must be an easier way. Sorry if this post is slightly OT. Thanks --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ ************ This footnote confirms that this email message has been scanned by PineApp Mail-SeCure for the presence of malicious code, vandals & computer viruses. ************************************************************************ ************ ----------------------------------------------------------- This message is a CONFIDENTIAL communication. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not read, copy, or use it, and do not disclose it to others. Please notify the sender of the delivery error by replying to this message, and then delete it from your system. Thank you. ************************************************************************************ This footnote confirms that this email message has been scanned by PineApp Mail-SeCure for the presence of malicious code, vandals & computer viruses. ************************************************************************************ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]