Re: HTTP transparent proxy

[Rafi Sadowsky <rafi () tavor openu ac il>]

On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, Magossa'nyi A'rpa'd wrote:

> On Tue, 11 Nov 1997, Desmond Teh wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Does anyone know of any products that can do transparent http proxy. 
> > Example, something that sit between users and the internet that able to 
> > represent a browser to access to the web without any changes need to be 
> > done on the client side. No configuration on client for proxy server, 
> > socks etc like what the current proxy servers Microsoft Proxy Server, 
> > Netscape Proxy server etc have to do.
> In linux you will need a kernel with transparent proxying turned on, 
> transproxyd and ipfwadm. And a www cache as well, like squid (which is the
> most decent one I know).
> And your host should act like a router/firewall at least for port 80.
you could use the cisco cahce engine in aprralel with a cisco router ( it
used to require a 7xxx router but they may have lifted that requirment


        Rafi