Re: [Oorexx-devel] ooRexx Filtering Forward Proxy

[Sahananda (J. W. <sah...@wi...>]

Hi Ruurd,

thanks for that - a neater solution than I had in mind.

Jon


On 20 October 2013 11:04, Ruurd Idenburg <rj...@xs...> wrote:

>  If the original request is to the gateway machine, then I think you can
> do that with redirection by generating an HTTP response with status code
> 302 (or 303/307 if you want to force the the request re-issue to use
> GET/POST) and with a  Location header field specifying the new url to go to.
>
> Ruurd Idenburg
>
> On 19-10-2013 10:01, Sahananda (Jon) Wolfers wrote:
>
> I was wondering, has anyone built a FIltering Forward Proxy Server using
> ooRexx on Windows?
>
>  I hope I have my terminology correct.  I want a script running on a
> machine.  That machine is declared as the default gateway for other
> machines on the LAN.
> HTTP requests to that machine are examined for url white/black lists and
> if they pass are forwarded to the 'real' gateway.  If not some other action
> is taken.
>
>  I think it should not be too hard to do, but I'm a bit unclear.
> I have the single thread server code that Mike demonstrated at his wiki
> presentation a few years back and I have in the past successfully adapted
> it to serve my own pages on the LAN.
>
>  I'm not sure about how the server machine would then talk to the 'real'
> gateway.
> Using rexxCurl perhaps?
>
>  I know that it is possible to do this with 3rd party apps., but I'm
> curious whether it would be possible to create something lightweight to do
> this using ooRexx.
>
>  I'm also a little unsure about the single threaded nature of the Server
> and what effect that would have on concurrent users.
>
>
>  On another note when Howard was interested in promoting Rexx, we were
> always on the lookout for useful applications that were straightforward to
> build in Rexx for magazine articles.  It occurs to me that if we could do
> this and do it well, this might be one such application, though I fear the
> socket function use may be a bit obscure for an article.
>
>  thanks for listening
>
>  Jon
>
>
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