[geeks] Encrypted Web Proxy

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Fri, 25 Aug 2006 @ 10:56 -0500, Michael Parson said:

> On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 11:18:33AM -0400, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
> > Joshua Boyd wrote:
> >> On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 10:55:30AM -0400, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
> >>
> >>> This is the kind of thing I'm looking for, but I was hoping to use 
> >>> something smaller than Squid.  Preferably something where I could stand 
> >>> a chance of reading and understanding the source code quickly.  Squid is 
> >>> just a bit too big to do it in a reasonable amount of time.
> >>
> >> Try htprox then.  It is a perl program that is a non-caching proxy.
> >
> > I couldn't find it.  Do you have a link for me?
> 
> You could use a stripped down Apache config wtih mod_proxy then.
> 
> Everything else would be the same.
> 
> Or Privoxy, then you get ad stripping too. =)

Seems to me it would be a lot easier to just install squid, and give it
almost no cache space at all.  In fact, either it or a companion program
can be a pure proxy anyway I believe.

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