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Re: Anonymous WWW proxies
Christian Wettergren writes:
> | + Chaining would be a imo good idea (ie cli <-> anonproxy1 <->
> | anonproxy2 <-> ... <-> server) but how would you manage to tell
> | your favorite web browser to add in its header something like
> | Http-Proxy-List: anonproxy2, ...
> | An alternative would be to have a database of avaibale (running)
> | proxies and that the proxy itself randomly choose a next route ?
> Doesn't most of the browsers support a "firewall-proxy-mode", where
> all queries are sent of to a special daemon, that forwards the query
> on. This would probably be the place to add the header-munging.
yes, they support one level of proxying, but not several as far as I
know (so chaining must be done by the proxy itself as I suggested
below)
> How do you plan to get the reverse-path working? Having a
> encrypted/chained return path in the request?
Reverse path is not a problem because WWW works with a bidirectional
connection, so you get the answer to you query on the same path as you
send it (its client <-> proxy1 ... (<-> and not ->))
Regards
dl
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