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Re: HTTP redirectors
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Andrew Lowenstern <[email protected]> writes:
>Normally a URL can specify an alternate port as well (of course). A common
>one is http://site.org:8080/dir/file.html... This gets around setting up
>the proxy without a privileged account. The only web browser I'm familiar
>with (OmniWeb for NeXTSTEP) also allows you to specify the port number for
>the proxy. I was under the impression that all browsers supported alternate
>port numbers for proxies since they are commonly used for URLs... Do Mosiac
>and Netscape allow specifying the port for proxy servers?
Yes, I think you are right. I think you can set your proxy to
site.org:8080 or whatever and clients will use the specified port
number. This is at least true of lynx, and I think they all use pretty
much the same conventions on this.
So I was mistaken in saying that you would need root privileges to set up
your own proxy. And I don't see that it would be much of a security
hole in that it would be no more privileged than the user who ran it.
Most security concerns come because httpd is running as a privileged
process, I think. An http redirector shouldn't be much more trouble than
a remailer, although the user who is running it would want some assurance
that his own files wouldn't be threatened.
Hal
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