Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] different kinds of proxies

2008-07-25 Thread André Warnier
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/24/08, Rich Schumacher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 8:50 AM, André Warnier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I thank you both for these very informative answers. This information is very useful in general, and in particular for a project I'm

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] different kinds of proxies

2008-07-24 Thread Rich Schumacher
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 11:51 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you. I was wondering if anybody noticed the question at the end of my post. I am truly interested in the answer. How would you have handled this if forward proxies did not exist? Your answer was the forward proxy helped

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] different kinds of proxies

2008-07-24 Thread Rich Schumacher
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 8:50 AM, André Warnier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. Me again butting in, because I am confused again. When users workstations within a company's local network have browsers configured to use an internal http proxy in order to access Internet HTTP servers, is this

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] different kinds of proxies

2008-07-24 Thread solprovider
On 7/24/08, Rich Schumacher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 8:50 AM, André Warnier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. Me again butting in, because I am confused again. When users workstations within a company's local network have browsers configured to use an internal http proxy

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] different kinds of proxies

2008-07-23 Thread solprovider
On 7/22/08, Rich Schumacher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Solprovider, While I agree with your sentiment that forward proxies can be very dangerous, I think you are jumping the gun with your statement doubting they have any legitimate use today. Here is a a real-world example that I use at my

[EMAIL PROTECTED] different kinds of proxies

2008-07-19 Thread André Warnier
Hi. From a recent thread originally dedicated to find out if a proxy server can be really transparent, I'll first quote a summary from solprovider. quote I think the confusion is between an network proxy server and a Web reverse proxy server. A network proxy server handles NAT (Network

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] different kinds of proxies

2008-07-19 Thread solprovider
On 7/19/08, André Warnier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From a recent thread originally dedicated to find out if a proxy server can be really transparent, I'll first quote a summary from solprovider. quote I think the confusion is between an network proxy server and a Web reverse proxy