Re: Extending AllegroServe's proxy abilities

On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 09:52:45 -0800, John Foderaro <[email protected]> wrote:

> The documentation on turning on Aserve's proxy capability is here:
>
>     http://opensource.franz.com/aserve/aserve-dist/doc/aserve.html#proxy

Yes, I know that part.

> You can find all the code in proxy.cl if you want to put some hooks
> into the process.  I'd written a proxy caching system (and that code
> is part of that file) but that isn't production quality code so it's
> not mentioned in the documentation.  Maybe I'll get back to it and
> finish it at some point.

OK, I'll look into it and see if I can grok enough of it to get what I
want.

> Beware of turning on the proxy capability of web servers that are
> accessible over the internet.  When it's discovered that you're
> running an open proxy server your IP address will be added to lists
> of open proxy servers and you will then be inundated with tons of
> proxy requests from all over the world and it will take a long time
> for your IP address to be removed from such lists.

It'll be on a LAN behind a firewall, so no problem.  But I'm curious:
I understand what bad people do with open SMTP servers but what the
hell do they do with open proxy servers?

Thanks,
Edi.