Proxy server help
Kerry Bouchard
BOUCHARD at LIB.IS.TCU.EDU
Mon Jul 6 10:19:25 EDT 1998
For the past couple of years, the TCU Library has been using a transparent
proxy that works in the manner described below; it is documented at:
http://lib.tcu.edu/www/staff/bouchard/cgi_logon/cgi_logon
Kerry Bouchard, K.BOUCHARD at TCU.EDU
Assistant University Librarian for Systems
Mary Couts Burnett Library, TCU
>But the major loophole in any such solution is that I have no control over
>the documents generated by the database vendor. Any HTML file with an
>absolute URL would cause the browser to bypass the gateway and get "access
>denied" by the vendor's server. I think I need to parse every HTML file,
>and rewrite every tag that might contain a URL (eg. "HREF=", "BACKGROUND=",
>"ACTION=", etc). This would be a slow and error-prone task. And because a
>module cannot filter the output of a response handler (yet), I'll probably
>have to rewrite mod_proxy.
>
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