Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] different kinds of proxies

2008-07-25 Thread André Warnier
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/24/08, Rich Schumacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 8:50 AM, André Warnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] I thank you both for these very informative answers. This information is very useful in general, and in particular for a project I'm w

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] different kinds of proxies

2008-07-24 Thread solprovider
On 7/24/08, Rich Schumacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 8:50 AM, André Warnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi. Me again butting in, because I am confused again. > > When users workstations within a company's local network have browsers > configured to use an internal "ht

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] different kinds of proxies

2008-07-24 Thread Rich Schumacher
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 8:50 AM, André Warnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. Me again butting in, because I am confused again. > When users workstations within a company's local network have browsers > configured to use an internal "http proxy" in order to access Internet HTTP > servers, is thi

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] different kinds of proxies

2008-07-24 Thread Rich Schumacher
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 11:51 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you. I was wondering if anybody noticed the question at the end > of my post. I am truly interested in the answer. > > How would you have handled this if forward proxies did not exist? > Your answer was the forward proxy helped

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] different kinds of proxies

2008-07-23 Thread André Warnier
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/22/08, Rich Schumacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Solprovider, While I agree with your sentiment that forward proxies can be very dangerous, I think you are jumping the gun with your statement doubting they have "any legitimate use today." Here is a a real-world e

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] different kinds of proxies

2008-07-22 Thread solprovider
On 7/22/08, Rich Schumacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Solprovider, > > While I agree with your sentiment that forward proxies can be very > dangerous, I think you are jumping the gun with your statement doubting they > have "any legitimate use today." > > Here is a a real-world example that I us

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] different kinds of proxies

2008-07-22 Thread Rich Schumacher
Solprovider, While I agree with your sentiment that forward proxies can be very dangerous, I think you are jumping the gun with your statement doubting they have "any legitimate use today." Here is a a real-world example that I use at my current job. My employer operates a series of websites tha

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] different kinds of proxies

2008-07-19 Thread solprovider
On 7/19/08, André Warnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From a recent thread originally dedicated to find out if a proxy server can > be really "transparent", I'll first quote a summary from "solprovider". > > quote > > I think the confusion is between an network proxy server and a Web > "revers

[EMAIL PROTECTED] different kinds of proxies

2008-07-19 Thread André Warnier
Hi. From a recent thread originally dedicated to find out if a proxy server can be really "transparent", I'll first quote a summary from "solprovider". quote I think the confusion is between an network proxy server and a Web "reverse" proxy server. A network proxy server handles NAT (Network