Installing a web proxy

Yoshida · UberTweaker Joined: 24 Dec 2003 Posts: 1219

Hey, my school recently installed a new content filter on our lame internet. I have my own webserver and I was wondering if anyone knew how I could install web proxy on it. So i can look at my favorite sites like www.big-boys.com through it, any help appreciated. thanks Very Happy

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fussnfeathers · Lord of the Tweak Joined: 14 Dec 2004 Posts: 2763

You might want to just ask your school. Often times, they'll allow you, if they know you're doing it. If they don't, then you can lose your network access pretty quickly, and never get it back. Schools are quite finicky about that, due to security, threats of lawsuits for file-sharing, etc etc. Several schools have even gone as far as to expel students for using a proxy server.........I dunno if I'd bother trying.
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zhensem · Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 8:36 am Post subject: Re: Installing a web proxy

Yoshida · UberTweaker Joined: 24 Dec 2003 Posts: 1219

yeah I was gonna install one of those anomyzer. I luckily found a nice cgi script called CGI proxy. I now use it and it works great. Check it out at

http://www.kaio-ken.com/cgiproxy/

zhensem · Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 11:20 am Post subject:

HAHAHA! That was the exact one I was installing and was going to recommend to you. However, it doesn't support SSL 'out of the box' which is why I was messing around with OpenSSL, etc.

Unfortunately I still haven't cracked it.

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Yoshida · UberTweaker Joined: 24 Dec 2003 Posts: 1219

lol zhenny, go to the url in the readme, it has a web auto installer. create a temporary ftp account on your server, and use that. It intalls it in about 2 seconds.

zhensem · Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 12:04 pm Post subject:

I've seen that before. That doesn't install SSL support, just the CGI Proxy itself which I did, and prefer doing, myself.
What I'm talking about is the OpenSSL and the Net::SSLeay perl module. I've managed to install OpenSSL (there's an installer provided) but I have no way to test it. Then I compiled (at least I think I did) the Net::SSLeay but I don't know where it's meant to install (or what is supposed to happen, for that matter) and CGI Proxy is supposed to detect it and work with SSL but it still doesn't which prompts me to think that I've incorrectly or have not installed Net::SSLeay, or maybe even OpenSSL. But I do think that it was Net::SSLeay specifically that failed to install properly since I don't feel 'right' about that installation. As I said before OpenSSL has an autoinstaller that does everything for you, well, it should do.

Yours doesn't work either, try logging into Hotmail, Yahoo or any other site that uses SSL (starts with https://).
However, yours gives a different error ("Retrieval of secure URLs through a non-secure proxy is forbidden") instead of the 'SSL not supported' error. That prompts me to think that SSL managed to install on yours? Have you tried it or does the above site actually installs OpenSSL and Net::SSLeay as well as CGI Proxy, in which case I've been wrong all along (I don't think it does, and even if it did it still doesn't work properly as can be seen by your installation of CGI Proxy)?
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