Re: [us...@httpd] Transparent Proxy Server Installation

2009-07-25 Thread Julien Pauli
That is the answer, yes. People must know that there is a main difference between a normal HTTP request, and a request made to a proxy (forward). The request is not exactly the same. A standard minimal HTTP request : GET / HTTP/1.1 Host: somehost The same one but to a forward proxy : GET http://

Re: [us...@httpd] Transparent Proxy Server Installation

2009-07-23 Thread André Warnier
Brian Kim wrote: Hi. Thanks. The initial idea is to make (3) work as a gateway too. Thus, (3) can pass all protocols except 80 to WWW. Then, users may get DNS address for WWW After then, when http requests occur, my proxy will hook all packets. Is my idea weird? I think yes. Can a reverse

Re: [us...@httpd] Transparent Proxy Server Installation

2009-07-23 Thread Bob Ionescu
2009/7/23 Brian Kim <09su.resea...@gmail.com>: [...] > [...] Can a reverse apache help for my configuration? See my posting to this list 23 hrs. ago. Bob - The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Projec

Re: [us...@httpd] Transparent Proxy Server Installation

2009-07-23 Thread Brian Kim
Hi. Thanks. The initial idea is to make (3) work as a gateway too. Thus, (3) can pass all protocols except 80 to WWW. Then, users may get DNS address for WWW After then, when http requests occur, my proxy will hook all packets. Is my idea weird? Can a reverse apache help for my configuration?

Re: [us...@httpd] Transparent Proxy Server Installation

2009-07-23 Thread André Warnier
Brian Kim wrote: Hi all. The basic configuration is as follows (1) (2) (3)(4) Users switch (eth2 -- eth0) -- WWW Users located in (1) will access WWW via http Apache server in (3). For non-transparent proxy,

Re: [us...@httpd] Transparent Proxy Server Installation

2009-07-23 Thread André Warnier
Brian Kim wrote: .. Brian, just send your answer to the list, do not include the other addresses. We are all subscribed to the list, so we get these messages anyway. If you also send it to the other addresses, we each get these messages twice. Thanks.

Re: [us...@httpd] Transparent Proxy Server Installation

2009-07-22 Thread Brian Kim
Hi all. The basic configuration is as follows (1) (2) (3)(4) Users switch (eth2 -- eth0) -- WWW Users located in (1) will access WWW via http Apache server in (3). For non-transparent proxy, every user across t

Re: [us...@httpd] Transparent Proxy Server Installation

2009-07-22 Thread André Warnier
Brian Kim wrote: The big picture for my http proxy is to install it to ISP level. It means users must not need to set up the proxy configuration In that sense, I thought a reverse proxy seems to be the transparent proxy. Is it right? Can you remind us exactly of what you want to do ? I am g

Re: [us...@httpd] Transparent Proxy Server Installation

2009-07-22 Thread Bob Ionescu
2009/7/22 Brian Kim <09su.resea...@gmail.com>: > It means users must not need to set up the proxy configuration > > In that sense, I thought a reverse proxy seems to be the transparent proxy. > > Is it right? IMHO yes. To get such a transparent proxy working with mod_proxy you'll need to work-arou

Re: [us...@httpd] Transparent Proxy Server Installation

2009-07-22 Thread Brian Kim
The big picture for my http proxy is to install it to ISP level. It means users must not need to set up the proxy configuration In that sense, I thought a reverse proxy seems to be the transparent proxy. Is it right? On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Nick Kew wrote: > Brian Kim wrote: >> >> Hi.

Re: [us...@httpd] Transparent Proxy Server Installation

2009-07-22 Thread Nick Kew
Brian Kim wrote: Hi. All. I am a beginner. So I really need somebody's help. I have asked a question about the transparent http apache server. Nobody answers it yet, so I ask it again and add what I have done until now. I haven't answered, because I'd need to look it up, and I haven't found t

Re: [us...@httpd] Transparent Proxy Server Installation

2009-07-22 Thread Brian Kim
Hi. As Andre mentioned, the browser needs a configuration for proxy. However, the transparent proxy allows users to access WWW without any configuration. In fact, I am suing Forward Proxy now and the reverse proxy seems to be the proxy that I meant. Am I right? Can anybody make it sure? On Tu

Re: [us...@httpd] Transparent Proxy Server Installation

2009-07-21 Thread rank1seeker
Just to step in with extra question. Why would anyone use apache AS proxy, by using mod_porxy..., etc. Why not let that to proxy application like squid, privoxy, polipo or something fifth?? Hell, someone might go and build mod_firewall, so apache could act like firewall too! Why if there is ap

Re: [us...@httpd] Transparent Proxy Server Installation

2009-07-21 Thread André Warnier
Brian Kim wrote: ... I don't know about "transparent proxy", but I think what you are talking about is a "forward proxy". Have you read this on-line Apache documentation ? http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_proxy.html and in particular the section : Forward Proxies and Reverse Proxies/Gat

[us...@httpd] Transparent Proxy Server Installation

2009-07-21 Thread Brian Kim
Hi. All. I am a beginner. So I really need somebody's help. I have asked a question about the transparent http apache server. Nobody answers it yet, so I ask it again and add what I have done until now. I have set up a server to have two ethernet interface. One is connected to a swtich to get al