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Chris Faust wrote:
Our mod_perl success story.
Here's mine...
The company I work at makes network management appliances (with a web interface). We were trying to figure out a good way to demo them without having to ship embedded PCs to everyone...
I went looking all over for good open-source filtering proxies that are easily configurable, and happened upon very little. Then I remembered reading about apache2 and how you can now hook into every part of the request process now.
I grabbed mp2 and in the span of 4 hours (and having no previous experience with "buckets" and such) had prototyped a filtering proxy that is perfect for our needs. I was able to set it up so that a virtual host can be mapped to an appliance behind the proxy and it automatically proxies all incoming connections to that appliance, *and* filters the returning data back out to the client.
It also lets us have live filters on anything coming back from the appliances, so we're able to make the appliances work just like they would out in the field, but still filter data to disallow doing things that could do damage to our internal "test" network for the appliances (like performing level 3 vulnerability scans and such).
Thanks, mod_perl! <grin>
- -- Benjamin Reed a.k.a. Ranger Rick -- http://ranger.befunk.com/
Standards are the industry's way of codifying obsolescence.
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