-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Andrew Lowenstern <andrew_loewenstern@il.us.swissbank.com> 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6 iQBVAwUBLvePsxnMLJtOy9MBAQFehwH/VQ3vCTDL/uGFJidXYnKca4NV+1kK/bQU 5WUFxNl3Qhk2t/zKPUxBnOunkpLXArhQW0TCIb5wDk54Wskh1q2iBA== =Yufk -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----