Merton Campbell Crockett wrote:

>    (1)        Companies A, B, and C are working on a joint project.
>    (2)        Company A is the lead for the joint project and is responsible
> for maintaining a web-accessible database of information about
> the project that is accessible to all team members.
>    (3)        Private, dedicated links have been established between A, B,
> and C to allow access to the database.
>    (4)        The web server for the database is only accessible through the
> private network connection and is not visible to the Internet.
>    (5)        Company B installs a Squid proxy server to provide restricted
> access to the web server at company A.
>    (6)        All HTTP requests for PROJECT.A.COM need to be forwarded to
> this Squid proxy server while all other HTTP requests for A.COM
> are forwarded to the default proxy server that provides Internet
> access.

This can be done easily with a proxy auto-config script. See the Squid FAQ
for more details:

http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ-5.html#ss5.2

Despite the title of the section, it works with most browsers, not just
Netscape.

Adam

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