Hi.

As Andre mentioned, the browser needs a configuration for proxy.

However, the transparent proxy allows users to access WWW without any
configuration.

In fact, I am suing Forward Proxy now and the reverse proxy seems to
be the proxy that I meant.

Am I right? Can anybody make it sure?


On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 6:24 PM, André Warnier<a...@ice-sa.com> wrote:
> Brian Kim wrote:
> ...
> I don't know about "transparent proxy", but I think what you are talking
> about is a "forward proxy".
> Have you read this on-line Apache documentation ?
>
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_proxy.html
> and in particular the section :
> Forward Proxies and Reverse Proxies/Gateways
>
> ?
>
> You don't need to play with IPTables for this, at least not between your
> internal client stations and the Apache forward proxy server.
> But your client workstations browsers need to be configured to use the
> Apache server as a HTTP proxy.
>
> Note that if this Apache server is directly connected to the internet, you
> must protect this forward proxy function, so that it will be *only*
> available to your internal clients.  Otherwise anyone could use your proxy
> to access other sites, and these accesses would be traced back to you.
> Read the above documentation carefully.
>
>
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